Friday, Mar. 17, 2006
The following secondary sources were used for The Unrighteous Traffic, Rhode Island and the Slave Trade:
Edward Andrews, "What About the 'Others'? The Social Experience of Slavery, Servitude, and Apprenticeship in the Families of Colonial Newport"; Irving H. Bartlett, From Slave to Citizen: the Story of the Negro in Rhode Island; John Russell Bartlett, History of the Wanton Family of Newport Rhode Island; Charles A. Battle, Negroes on the Island of Rhode Island; Bruce M. Bigelow, "Aaron Lopez: Colonial Merchant of Newport" and "The Commerce of Rhode Island with the West Indies, Before the American Revolution" (unpublished thesis); Gladys E. Bolhouse, "Abraham Redwood: Reluctant Quaker, Philanthropist, Botanist"; Stanley F. Chyet, Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince; Jay Coughtry, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807; Elaine Forman Crane, A Dependent People: Newport, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary Era;
Sarah Deutsch, "The Elusive Guineamen: Newport Slavers, 1735-1774"; Elizabeth Donnan, Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade in America, Vol. 3, and "The New England Slave Trade After the Revolution"; Richard S. Dunn, Sugar & Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713; Robert K. Fitts, Inventing New England's Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island; Kevin Gaines, Beth Parkhurst, African-Americans in Newport, 1660-1690; David Barry Gaspar, Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua; Thomas R. Hazard, Recollections of Olden Times: Rowland Robinson of Narragansett and his Unfortunate Daughter; James B. Hedges, The Browns of Providence Plantations: The Colonial Years; George Howe, Mount Hope: A New England Chronicle; Ricardo Howell, "A Special Report: Slavery, the Brown Family of Providence and Brown University";
Arline Ruth Kiven, "Then Why the Negroes: The Nature and Course of the Anti-Slavery Movement in Rhode Island: 1637-1861"; J. Stanley Lemons, "Rhode Island and the Slave Trade"; Rachel Chernos Lin, "The Rhode Island Slave-Traders: Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers"; George Champlin Mason, Annals of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, R.I.; Marcus A. McCorison, The 1764 Catalogue of the Redwood Library Company at Newport, Rhode Island; Christian M. McBurney, "The Rise and Decline of the South Kingstown Planters, 1660-1783" (unpublished thesis); Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860, and "Rhode Island Slavery and Its Legacies"; The Final Victims, Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810, James A. McMillin; William Davis Miller, "The Narragansett Planters"; Edmund S. Morgan, The Gentle Puritan, A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795; Wilfred H. Munro, The Story of the Mount Hope Lands, From the Visit of the Northmen to the Present Time and Tales of an Old Seaport;
Christy M. Nadalin, "The Last Years of the Rhode Island Slave Trade"; Richard Pares, Yankees and Creoles: The Trade Between North America and the West Indies Before the American Revolution; Howard Willis Preston, Rhode Island and the Sea; Mack Thompson, Moses Brown: Reluctant Reformer; Charles O. F. Thompson, Sketches of Old Bristol; Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England; Wilkins Updike, A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett Rhode Island; Lynne Withey, Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century; Carl R. Woodward, Plantation in Yankeeland: The Story of Cocumscussoc, Mirror of Colonial Rhode Island; and Richard C. Youngken, African Americans in Newport, An Introduction to the Heritage of African Americans in Newport, Rhode Island, 1700-1945.
Sources used in the Slavery timelines:
Clifford Lindsey Alderman, Rum, Slaves and Molasses: The Story of New England's Triangular Trade; John Hutchins Cady, "Rhode Island Boundaries, 1636-1936", Rhode Island Tercentenary Commission, 1936; Jay Coughtry, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807; William Dudley, (editor), Turning Points in World History: American Slavery; Dwight Lowell Dumond, Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America; John R. Spears, The American Slave Trade; Earl C. Tanner, "Rhode Island: A Brief History"; The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island; Betty Wood, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies; Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Web sites:
www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html Slavery and the Making of America series
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