A Short History of Rhode Island
Author | : George Washington Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Washington Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glenn V. Laxton |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2009-11-27 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1625843038 |
Hidden History of Rhode Island delivers the best Ocean State stories you've never heard before. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island's legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a French viscount. Rhode Island historian Glenn Laxton uncovers the exceptional citizens whom history has forgotten, like Robert the Hermit, a man who endured three escapes from slavery before finding liberty and peace in Rumford; the illustrious Lippitt family, who spearheaded advancements in deaf education; and Christiana Bannister, a Narragansett tribe member, nineteenth-century entrepreneur and wife to the most successful African American artist of the time. With moments of tragedy, as in the Lexington steamboat disaster, as well as triumph, as in the case of small-town boy turned baseball hero Joe Connolly, Laxton reveals Rhode Island beneath the surface.
Author | : Roberta Wiener |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781410903112 |
Examines the early colonization of Rhode Island, discussing the struggles the colonists endured, their government, daily lives, and more.
Author | : William McLoughlin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1986-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393302714 |
With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
Author | : George Washington Greene |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789357934770 |
A short history of Rhode Island, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of United States local history New England
Author | : George Washington Greene |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781507669389 |
"[...]these and their dependent spirits of (his) honest intention to live peaceably by them.” The well founded distrust of the English which Canonicus cherished to the end of his life did not extend to Williams, to whom he made a grant of land between the Mooshausick and the Wanasquatucket; confirming it two years later by a deed bearing the marks of the two Narragansett chiefs. This land Williams divided with twelve of his companions, reserving for them and himself the right of extending the grant “to such others as the major part of us shall admit to the same fellowship of vote with us.” It was a broad foundation, and he soon found himself in the midst of a flourishing colony. The proprietors, dividing their lands into two parts, “the grand purchase of Providence,” and the[...]".
Author | : Avi |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2010-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545214912 |
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
Author | : Patty Lommel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Washington Greene |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2017-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780265185698 |
Excerpt from A Short History of Rhode Island I have attempted in the following pages to tell What the part of Rhode Island has been in this great drama. A talent was entrusted to her. Did she wrap it in a napkin? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : George Washington 1811-1883 Greene |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371227722 |
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