On several occasions, he ignored the night curfew for Black people and stayed out with his white companions, much to his mother’s lament. Smalls was raised in the McKee house and enjoyed a little more acceptance in the community. The identity of his father is not officially known but believed to be Henry McKee, the son of the plantation’s owner. Smalls was born to a house enslaved person, Lydia Polite, in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839. House of Representatives in 1875 but was convicted of taking a bribe while in the state senate and sentenced to prison before he was pardoned by the governor. After the war, he became a successful businessman and politician serving in both houses of the South Carolina legislature. Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who escaped to freedom in a Confederate supply ship and eventually became a sea captain for the Union Navy.
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