South Carolina Honors Black American
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•The enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, sailed to freedom and became a U.S. Congressman
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South Carolina will honor Robert Smalls with the state's first statue of a Black American .
Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort , South Carolina , in 1839 .
He was an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship, sailed to freedom and became a U.S. Congressman.
He became the first Black person to serve as a pilot for the Navy and fought 17 Civil War battles.
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