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

Narrative of Slave Revolt on Ship off Africa

Account of the Slave Ship Sally

South West View of Seat of Henry Merchant

Newport Gardner

African Free Union Society Meeting

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