He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster.

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a prominent political leader, by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn.

symbolic of violence in South Carolina after the Civil War. “Our exhibits are basically centered around the collection pieces that we have. So one of the key pieces in the exhibit is a pew that ...

Library of Congress South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped slavery to become a Civil War hero and a lawmaker. It will be the first monument to an ...

He spent a decade in the US House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned ...

He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil ...