EnCompass: A Digital Sourcebook of Rhode Island History

EnCompass

  • About
  • Chapters
    • 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
  • Lesson Plans
  • Primary Sources
  • Contact Us

Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution

  • Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution
  • Primary Sources
    • Slater Mill
    • Micrometer
    • “Slave Cloth”
    • Child Laborers
    • Workers’ Strike
    • Kelley v. Silver Spring Court Notes
  • Secondary Sources
    • Dorr Rebellion
  • Lesson Plans
  • Additional Resources
  • Rhode Island Content Standards
  • References
  • Acknowledgments