Basil Watson calls it an honor to create a likeness of Smalls, the first Black person honored with a statue at the SC State House.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort in 1839 to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman. Smalls later purchased his childhood home, located at 511 Prince Street, from his former master.

The mural will end in with the projected opening of the new building with the new name “Robert Smalls Leadership Academy” in 2023, funded with $345 million from a 2019 school bond referendum ...

Michael Boulware Moore, his great-great-grandson and author of the book “ Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War ...

The LSV-8 was named in honor of Robert Smalls, who was a 23-year-old slave during the Civil War when he commandeered a Confederate transport steamer loaded with armaments and used the vessel to ...

Members voted unanimously during a Jan. 8 meeting of the Robert Smalls Monument Commission to select Atlanta-based artist Basil Watson as the artist of a monument to Smalls, culminating a two-year ...

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.

That’s Robert Smalls – character, drive and commitment.” Smalls went on to serve the Lowcountry people as member of the SC House of Representatives, the SC senator and then served 4 terms as a US ...

For most of its existence, Robert Smalls was the only public high school for Black children in Beaufort County. Students would travel from as far as Daufuskie , Sheldon, and Orangeburg to attend.