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The Italians in Rhode Island: The Age of Exploration to the Present, 1524–1989 (Rhode Island Heritage Commission, 1990), Weeden, William B. Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People (1910). Withey, Lynne E. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century (1984). WPA (Works Progress Administration).
The Rhode Island General Assembly legalized African and Native American slavery throughout the colony in 1703, and the slave trade fueled the growth of Providence and Newport into major ports. [ 15 ] : 11–13 By 1755, enslaved people made up 10% of the colony's population.
Aaron Lopez (born Duarte Lopez; 1731 – May 28, 1782) was a Portuguese-born merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist.Born in Lisbon into a converso family, he moved to British America, settling in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Across the country, statues of confederate leaders are coming down. The "Providence Plantations" part is the name of the land settled in the capitol city by slave owner Roger Williams in 1636.
John Brown (January 27, 1736 – September 20, 1803) was an American merchant, politician and slave trader from Providence, Rhode Island.Together with his brothers Nicholas, Joseph and Moses, Brown was instrumental in founding Brown University (then known as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) and moving it to their family's former estate in Providence.
Nicholas Cooke (February 3, 1717 – September 14, 1782) was an American politician, slave-trader, and ropemaker who served as the governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the American Revolutionary War, and after Rhode Island became a state, he continued in this position to become the first Governor of the State of Rhode Island.
A Rhode Island town that was a center of the transatlantic slave trade is commemorating Juneteenth by unveiling a new... View Article The post Town that was a center of slave trade unveiling ...
Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) [1] was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island.