Newswire : South Carolina to build state’s first individual monument honoring an African American

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Newswire : South Carolina to build state’s first individual monument honoring an African American

Robert Smalls’ gravesite in Beaufort, S. C. By The Associated Press BEAUFORT, S.C. — South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others […]

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