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Robert Smalls put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder's ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War .
Smalls helped rewrite South Carolina's constitution to allow Black men equality after the war.
A special committee has until January 15 to come up with a design, a location and the money to pay for whatever memorial they choose.
Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort and died in 1915 in his hometown a free, but somewhat forgotten man.
Supporters now have a chance to make sure he never fades into obscurity.
Driving a Confederate boat to freedom is what captures the most attention in that remarkable life.
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