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Rhode Island's Slave Trade and Gradual Emancipation

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Rhode Island's Slave Trade and Gradual Emancipation
Rhode Island's Slave Trade and Gradual Emancipation

Rhode Island merchants dominated the colonial slave trade even as the state passed gradual emancipation; that dual history of profit and partial freedom defines New England's entanglement with slavery.

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