The South Carolina Legislator is working in a bipartisan manner to build a statue of civil war hero Robert Smalls who as a slave heisted a Confederate battleship, surrendered it to the Union, became a wartime advisor to President Abraham Lincoln, convinced Lincoln to allow former slaves to fight in the Union army, became the first African American to command a US Naval Vessel. Smalls then returns to South Carolina, founds the South Carolina Republican Party, wins a S.C. House seat, writes legislation to form the first public school system in America. Then wins a U.S. Congress seat despite campaigns of violence and corruption against him from white Democrats.
It's quite the story, but the media keeps leaving out the little detail that he founded the South Carolina Republican Party in 1868 and mentioning the railroading came from the Democrat Party. Strange...
And this is not the first time Robert Smalls has come up in the South Carolina news cycle. Here are stories from around the state dating back to 2015 with no mention of it.
WISTV: 'A South Carolina hero': Lawmakers want statue of Robert Smalls built outside SC State House
SC Daily Gazette: Lawmakers want statue of Black Civil War hero Robert Smalls outside Statehouse
Post and Courier: In divided SC Statehouse, push to honor Civil War here Robert Smalls unites
The State: From slave to congressman: A tale of a life lived large-
Charleston City Paper: Frazier: Robert Small's Civil War exploits unknown decades ago
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