Document 6.3 – Robert Smalls’s Address to the South Carolina Legislature

Robert Smalls images and speech excerpt.

loc.gov/pictures/collection/brhc/item/2017893186/

mainstreetbeaufort.org/tabernacle-baptist-church-robert-smalls-statue/

Speech excerpt

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.