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    Mar 24, 2020 5 minutes
    by Sarah Richardson

    Slavery in Rhode Island

    that figured in slavery. The Slave History Medallions project, announced in November 2019, will install markers explaining the slave trade’s prominent role in that state’s fortunes. Besides being a hub for slavers and their vessels (“How New England Got Rich on Slavery,” ), Rhode Island was home to large plantations worked by enslaved laborers, some of whom fought in the Revolution. Rhode Islander Charles Roberts, who as a child played in God’s Little Acre, a section in Newport’s Common Burying Ground containing slaves’ unmarked graves, conceived and chairs the project. The markers, left, feature an angel’s-head-and-wings image borrowed from a gravestone carved and signed in 1768 by enslaved stone carver Pompe Stevens. The medallions, to be installed at some 25 sites, will bear digital codes accessible by mobile device explaining each

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