Grave File: Robert Scott Smalls (1839-1915)

Robert Smalls

Grave File: Robert Scott Smalls (1839-1915)

02/13/2003

Grave File

Find A Grave presents photographs of Robert Smalls, the Robert Scott Smalls Memorial and his gravesite in Beaufort, South Carolina. Robert Smalls was an enslaved man who escaped slavery and later became a South Carolina Congressman (R-SC). The source includes a biographical account of his life, the transcription of the inscription displayed on the monument and links to members of his family.

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