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African Privateers and Sailors In Colonial Rhode Island

by Keith Stokes | Jan 2, 2014 | Occupations, Research, Uncategorized

The peculiar institution of slavery in Rhode Island had its start and evolution with the sea. The town of Newport, aptly named the “City by the Sea,” would become the fifth most active seaport in all of Thirteen Colonies by the mid-18th century, an era that...

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