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Dark work : the business of slavery in 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 slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so impo...

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Main Author: Clark-Pujara, Christy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Early American places
Subjects and Genres:
Slavery > Rhode Island > History.
Slave trade > Rhode Island > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Rhode Island > History.
Enslaved persons > Rhode Island > Social conditions.
Free African Americans > Rhode Island > History.
Free African Americans.
Race relations.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
HISTORY / African American.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Rhode Island > Race relations > History.
Rhode Island.
History.
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Call Number: URI E 445 .R4 C55 2016
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