It was passed in 1652 in Rhode Island colony. It applied to Warwick and Providence. It banned lifetime ownership of slavery. It was probably never enforced. Olivia Waxman explains it all at Time. Her piece centers around the work of Christy...
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The Author's Corner with Julie Holcomb
Julie L. Holcomb is Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Museum Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This interview is based on her new book Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave...
The Author's Corner with Daniel W. Crofts
Daniel W. Crofts is Professor Emeritus of History at The College of New Jersey. This interview is based on his new book, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (The...
The Author's Corner with Joseph Moore
Joseph Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Gardner-Webb University. This interview is based on his new book, Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2015). JF: What led...
Quote of the Day
From Professor Keith Beutler‘s Facebook page: Kim Davis, acting from her conscience, might do better by tendering a principled resignation. Consider what Robert Cover observed in his magisterial history of anti-slavery judges in pro-slavery jurisdictions in the nineteenth-century U.S.: “…The...
New Jersey Forum Wrap-Up
Last Saturday I had the honor of presenting one of the keynote addresses at the New Jersey Forum, a biennial conference on New Jersey history organized by the New Jersey Historical Commission. This year the conference was hosted and co-sponsored...
The Author’s Corner with Christopher Cameron
Christopher Cameron is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. This interview is based on his forthcoming book To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement (Kent State University Press, June...