The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
by
Christy Clark-Pujara
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island.
Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold...