COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

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A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. Provided photo COLUMBIA, S.C. A monument honoring a former Black ...

A monument to Robert Smalls, sculpted by Atlanta-based artist Basil Watson. (Provided/Robert Smalls Monument Commission) COLUMBIA — Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white ...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man tossed aside by a Southern society determined to keep Blacks inferior.

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