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Day 1, Sunday, March 12 Buying and Selling the Human Species: Newport and the Slave Trade For more than 75 years, the Triangular Trade flourishes in Newport. Rhode Island rum is traded in Africa for slaves, many of whom are sold in the West Indies. Molasses is brought back to Newport so distillers can make more rum. Read the story | Related: Abraham Redwood, Antigua and the West Indies Trade | Timeline: Dawn of Exploitation | See the multimedia * * * Day 2, Monday, March 13 Plantations in the North: The Narragansett Planters The prosperous Narragansett Planters, operating plantations in South County, send food and livestock vital to the huge sugar cane plantations in the West Indies. Read the story | Related: No Simple Truth: The Rev. McSparran and his slaves | Related: An Education at Sea: Farm Boys and the Slave Trade Newport Slave Traders: A List | Timeline: Rhode Island rum proves its worth | See the multimedia * * * Day 3, Tuesday, March 14 Strangers in a Strange Land: Newport's Slaves Newport slaves left few accounts to convey what they thought or how they felt. Read the story | Saving the Past: God's Little Acre | Timeline: Slave traders defy the law | See the multimedia * * * Day 4, Wednesday, March 15 1 Boye Slave Dyed: The Terrible Voyage of the Sally As Capt. Esek Hopkins found at the height of the trade, transporting slaves was dangerous and dirty work. The Brown brothers' first joint investment in a slave voyage is a financial disaster. Read the story | Shipboard revolt: Not an unusual occurrence | Timeline: The struggle for acceptance | See the multimedia * * * Day 5, Thursday, March 16 Brown vs. Brown: Brothers Go Head to Head Providence brothers John and Moses Brown, one a slave trader and the other an abolitionist, square off. Read the story | Timeline: The many voices of protest | See the multimedia * * * Day 6, Friday, March 17 Living Off the Trade: Bristol and the DeWolfs Although federal and state laws are passed to end slave trading, merchants find ways to evade them and continue to prosper. The DeWolfs of Bristol dominate the slave trade and the town. Read the story | Slave Traders in the Family: Probing a Dark Past | The Rhode Island Slave Trader: A Reading List | Timeline: Federal pursuit of the slave traders | See the multimedia * * * Day 7, Sunday, March 19 When Kristin Hayes teaches slavery, she shows her students a colorful mural depicting a white man on a horse overseeing bare-chested slaves toiling in a field. Read the story | See the multimedia * * * |
Extras React to the Rhode Island and the Slave Trade series Listen to the complete interviews * * * About More about the people in our interviews Printable version of the series * * * Newspapers in Education For teachers (all file are MS Word) * * * Aftermath
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