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House Speaker Mattiello on the radio:
“I originally did not think we had actual slavery in Rhode Island and that may not be accurate”.
June 2020 Projo Article
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition:
Wikipedia Description
UNESCO Description
Rhode Island Historical Society Publication – RI and the Slave Trade
https://www.rihs.org/
Abolition and Anti-Abolition in Newport, 1835-1866
https://newporthistory.org/
Small State Big History
http://smallstatebighistory.
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
www.riblackheritage.org
Stages of Freedom
https://www.stagesoffreedom.
Fredrick Douglass in Woonsocket
https://rhodetour.org/items/
Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts – Slave Cloth and Clothing Slaves: Craftsmanship, Commerce, and Industry by Madelyn Shaw
https://www.mesdajournal.org/
PROVIDENCE WALKS: EARLY BLACK HISTORY –
https://assets.simpleviewinc.
Warwick Beacon Editorial
1652 Declaration to abolish slavery in Warwick
Hidden in Plain Sight: AMERICAN SLAVERY AND THE UNIVERSITY
https://cssj.brown.edu/sites/
Martin Puryear, Slavery Memorial, 2014
https://www.brown.edu/about/
The Rhode Island Slave-Traders: Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick-Makers
Rachel Chernos Lin Pages 21-38 | Published online: 08 Sep 2010
Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, essay by Joanne Pope Melish
http://library.providence.edu/
Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island Early American Places by Christy Clark-Pujara
https://nyupress.org/
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara – Lecture for the Rhode Island Middle Passage and Port Markers Project, Feb 17 2017
“The erasure or marginalization of the black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the Northern economy allows for a very dangerous fiction – that the North has no history of racism to overcome. And how do we learn who matters in history? Because when we get right down to it that’s why history is so important. History makes us human. History gives us a collective immortality. It legitimizes our culture. It tells us why we are important. It tells us who is contributing. And most people encounter history on plaques that say these great people did these great things. And if all of hose people are only male and white, we are sent a very clear message about who matters and, more than that, who is human. We have to tell the history of African and African Americans in this space because any story without them is disingenuous. We are missing something. The history of slavery in American history. It is not an aside. It is not an addendum, regulated to special classes on month out of the year. It is central to the story of who we are. And that matters whether your family came here on the Mayflower or if they came here yesterday. People of African descent helped build this nation, north and south. They made it a nation where people wanted to be.”
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Supported in part by:
This project is made possible through major funding support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Council seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all Rhode Islanders.
Funding provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders.
