From the website: The African Slave Trade and Newport, Rhode Island share common origins. Newport, one of the most prosperous of Colonial American ports, saw unprecedented growth throughout the 18th century; mostly from the export and trade of rum, spermaceti candles and slaves ( Read more... )

The immigrants who left their homelands in the 17th and the 18th centuries to settle on Aquidneck Island arrived with dreams of freedom and hopes for a better life ( Read more... )

Follows admission that co-founders used slavery money to found the college ( Read more... )

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Pioneer's life was simple, but remarkable

January 9, 2007

BY DESIREE COOPER

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

One usually thinks of missionaries as those who exercise faith abroad, but that wasn't so for the soft-spoken, demure internist Rachel Hannah Celestine Boone Keith. The daughter of American medical ( Read more... )

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A committee examining Brown University's centuries-old ties to the slave trade issued a report Wednesday recommending the creation of a memorial and an academic center focused on research on slavery and justice ( Read more... )