Tabernacle Baptist Church Craven Street Beaufort South Carolina
Date:
Dedicated February 21, 1976
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, South Carolina survey, 1993.
Image on file.
(Inscribed on base, front:) ROBERT SMALLS / "MY RACE NEEDS NO SPECIAL DEFENSE, / FOR THE PAST HISTORY OF THEM IN / THIS COUNTRY PROVES THEM TO BE / THE EQUAL OF ANY PEOPLE ANYWHERE. / ALL THEY NEED IS AN EQUAL CHANCE/IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE." / ROBERT SMALLS / NOV. 1, 1895 (On plaque on base:) THIS MEMORIAL TO ROBERT SMALLS / WAS COMMISSIONED / BY BEAUFORT COUNTY COUNCIL / UNVEILED FEB. 21, 1976 / MARION TALMAGE ETHREDGE / ARTIST
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Summary:
Bust of Robert Smalls, an African American with curly hair, a moustache and a goatee. He wears a 19th century style suit.
