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On April 5, 1839, Robert ... 1851, Smalls moved to the Charleston estate of his owner John McKee, where he learned many trades such as lamplighter, sailor, expert navigator and other ship-related ...
Lisa Elmaleh In May 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls won renown by stealing the Planter, the Confederate military transport on which he served as a pilot. On a night when the ship’s ...
READ MORE | "Charleston leaders to honor Civil War hero Robert Smalls." In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship's white Confederate crew members to leave ...
A man named Robert Smalls is staging a daring escape from slavery. Smalls had been forced to work as pilot on a prized confederate navy ship called the CSS Plater. That night, all of the white ...
A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War ... s entrance of the State House. The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House ...