EnCompass: A Digital Sourcebook of Rhode Island History

EnCompass

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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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Primary Sources

Lovell Hospital Pass

Letter to Governor William Sprague to Accept Volunteers of African Descent

An Account of Women’s Donations to the War

Photograph of Kady Brownell

Annotated Map of Gettysburg

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