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No there wasn't slavery in Rhode Island. Rhode Island was started as a colony for unconventional people in the colonies.
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LOUISIANNA to Rhode Island.
Origin of the Name Rhode Island - Rhode Island was either named for the Isle of Rhodes (in the Mediterranean Sea) or for its red clay (the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block may have named it "Rood Eylandt" meaning Red Island, in Dutch).