COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it ...

This recognition of Robert Smalls will be a historic one for the Palmetto State. It’s “one more piece of crucial, important history that people need to know about,” Gov. Henry McMaster said.

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 ...