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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Rhode Island Colonial Gleanings ...
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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They “... Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate:”
Author: Daniel M. Popek
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496908988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” of the American Revolutionary War is fairly well-known to students of American History. Most published histories of the small colored battalion from Rhode Island are clearly biased in favor of the “regiment” and tend to interpret it as an elite military unit. However, a detailed study and analysis of Rhode Island’s segregated Continental Line by the author reveals a “military experiment” that was beset with difficulties from its start and ultimately failed as a segregated unit in 1780. In this work, many of the popular stories of Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” are proven to be myths. Follow the accurate historical stories of the colored and white soldiers of Rhode Island’s Continental Line whose courage and sacrifices helped create an independent nation.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496908988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” of the American Revolutionary War is fairly well-known to students of American History. Most published histories of the small colored battalion from Rhode Island are clearly biased in favor of the “regiment” and tend to interpret it as an elite military unit. However, a detailed study and analysis of Rhode Island’s segregated Continental Line by the author reveals a “military experiment” that was beset with difficulties from its start and ultimately failed as a segregated unit in 1780. In this work, many of the popular stories of Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” are proven to be myths. Follow the accurate historical stories of the colored and white soldiers of Rhode Island’s Continental Line whose courage and sacrifices helped create an independent nation.
The Town Records of Rhode Island
Author: Amos Perry
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Report on the Archives of Rhode Island
Author: Clarence Saunders Brigham
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Town Government in Rhode Island
Author: William Eaton Foster
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Rhode Island Roots
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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How Welfare Worked in the Early United States
Author: Gabriel J. Loiacono
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197515452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197515452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.
Forgotten Patriots
Author: Eric Grundset
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island
Author: Sydney V. James
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An expert's final word on institutional development and change in colonial Rhode Island.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An expert's final word on institutional development and change in colonial Rhode Island.