Free State
The Rhode Island slave trade made many families rich.
Rhode Island
The Rhode Island slave trade made many families rich.
Rhode Island was a slave state in the colonial period and early years of the United States, but it abolished slavery gradually starting in the late 18th century. By 1842, all enslaved individuals in Rhode Island had been emancipated.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Even though slavery was important to its economy, Rhode Island was the first colony to prohibit the importation of slaves in 1774.
There were slaves and the State had many major players in the transportation and financing of the slave trade.
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Rhode Island