Inside a small art studio not far from Atlanta, 67-year-old Basil Watson is shaping history. The Jamaican-born artist is creating a sculpture of Robert Smalls, the historic South Carolina lawmaker who ...

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.

A clay rendering of the Robert Smalls monument. Basil Watson, of Georgia, design selected was selected to sculpt the statue. A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill awaiting Gov. Henry McMaster’s signature will memorialize Robert Smalls on State House grounds with a monument. There are 27 monuments surrounding the State House dedicated to ...

Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert Smalls will be unveiled outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House of ...

A new statue honoring Civil War hero and former congressman Robert Smalls will become the first monument of an individual African American on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. Artist Basil Watson ...

Last fall when I was traveling in South Carolina, my friend Robin, who is a civil rights attorney, told me about Robert Smalls and showed me a plaque in his honor in Charleston. I have to admit I had ...

(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 white supremacist ...

At 23-years-old, Robert Smalls won freedom for himself and his family. The Beaufort County man went from slavery to pilot during the Civil War before being elected to Congress. He is the embodiment of ...

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 ...