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Before Rhode Island: Early Peoples and Archaeology
Narragansett History
Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island
Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
Rhode Island in the American Revolution
The Underground Railroad in Rhode Island
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution
Jewish History in Rhode Island
Immigration to Rhode Island
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
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“The Burning of the Gaspee, 1772” by Charles DeWolf Brownell, RI 1892. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections RHiX510
On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
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Copy of a letter from Rear Admiral Montagu to Mr. Stephens in the British Parliament
A Proclamation by Governor Wanton
Copy of the testimony of Aaron Briggs
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