Author: Caroline Elizabeth Robinson
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Brown University
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Author: Jared Hardesty
Publisher: Bright Leaf
ISBN: 9781625344564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told. In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of New England.

Author: Caroline Hazard
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Edward Channing
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Category : Narragansett Region (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: George Sears Greene
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Languages : en
Pages : 970

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This work embraces the ancestors & descendants of John Greene, surgeon (1590-1659) who married Joanne Tattershall in 1619 and immigrated from Salisbury, County Wilts, England to Boston Massachusetts in 1635. He settled in Warwick Rhode Island. He married three times due to the unexpected death of his 1st and 2nd wife. He had a long and active political life, holding office almost continuously throughout his life. Descendants primarily lived in the eastern United States.

Author: Thomas Robinson Hazard
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Rowland Robinson (1719-1806), son of Governor William Robinson, came to Narragansett from England. He married Anstis Gardiner in 1741. Ancestry is traced to Rowland Robinson who was born in Cumberland, England in 1654 and came to America in 1675. He married Mary Allen (1656-1706) and later died in 1716 in South Kingston, Rhode Island. The Hazards are traced to Duke de Charante, ca. 1060, living on the borders of Switzerland. The Hazards of Rhode Island are traced to Thomas Hassard who settled in Rhode Island, ca. 1639. Descendants lived in Vermont, Rhode Island, South Carolina, New York, and elsewhere. James Sweet, son of Isaac and Mary, came to America from Wales in 1630 and settled in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married Mary Green.

Author: Christy Clark-Pujara
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479855634
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.

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Category : Lead
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: John Cassan 1860-1936 Wait
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014238726
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Languages : en
Pages : 86

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