Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Robert Smalls made a daring sea escape during the Civil War as a slave and went on to serve five terms in Congress as a Representative from South Carolina.

On May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved crewmember of the Confederate ship Planter, courageously seized both the ship and freedom. When the ship’s white crew went ashore to …

Hoisting the white flag of surrender, Smalls offered the boat to the Union forces. Not only had he won freedom for himself, his family and twelve others, but Smalls had also given the Union a …

An escaped slave and a Civil War naval hero, Robert Smalls served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. While still a slave, Smalls was hired out on the waterfront and became an …

The New York Public Library features a bulleted, biographical profile on Robert Smalls- a formerly enslaved man who later became a Congressman (R-SC) and businessman.

May 12, 2012 · In the early morning of Tuesday, May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, the wheelman of the Planter, commandeered the former cotton steamer turned Confederate supply boat. His …

ROBERT SMALLS, whose famous escape and personal appearance we have already made familiar, replied in a very modest and touching address, recounting his desperate venture, and …

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