PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) ─ A new, innovative project is shining a light on the hidden history of Rhode Island. Slave medallions are being placed throughout the Ocean State marking the role each city ...

Raiders from Providence and Bristol burned the British customs ship, Gaspee, on June 9 and 10, 1772, thereby striking America’s “first blow for freedom.” Now, as the 250th anniversary of that daring ...

This article examines the phenomenon of New World-based slave trading, which encompasses slave-trading voyages that embarked from ports in the Americas. Much of the existing literature takes a ...

Africans profited as much as Europeans and their western colonies, an American professor told a lecture audience last evening at Warwick Academy. A mix of races heard Boston College professor of ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...

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