Works Cited (Novel)

Works Cited

Bailyn, Bernard. "Slavery and Population Growth in Colonial New England" in Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (ed. Peter Temin)

Bailyn, Bernard. The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1964).

Bartlett, Irving H. From Slave to Citizen: The story of the Negro in Rhode Island (1954)

Battle, Charles A. Negroes on the Island of Rhode Island (1932)

Blatt, Martin H.  & David R. Roediger, The Meaning of Slavery in the North (1998).

Clark-Pujara, Christy. Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. New York University Press, 2016. 

Delude-Dix, Elizabeth. No Simple Truth: A Minister and his Slaves in Colonial Rhode Island. 

Fitts, Robert K. Inventing New England's Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island (1998). 

Greene, Lorenzo, J. The Negro in Colonial New England (1971).

Irving H. Bartlett. From Slave to Citizen: the Story of the Negro in Rhode Island. Providence: Urban League of Greater Providence. 1972

Lancaster, Jane (2023) "Eight Clues: The Ordinary and Extraordinary Life of Arthur Bowler in Slavery and Freedom," Newport History: Journal of the Newport Historical Society: Vol. 99: Iss. 288, Article 2.

Lofton, Williston H.; Bartlett, Irving H. "From Slave to Citizen: The Story of the Negro in Rhode Island." The Journal of Negro Education, 1955, Vol 24, Issue 4, p449

MacSparran, James. A letter book and abstract of out services written during the years 1743-1751. 

McBurney, Christian. The South Kingstown Planters: Country Gentry in Colonial Rhode Island. Rhode Island History vol. 45, n. 3, August 1986: 81-94.

---. Governor’s 1708 Report Tells Where the First Black Enslaved People Who Arrived in Rhode Island Came from and About the Arrival of the First Slave Ship from Africa. Small State, Big History.

McManus, Edgar J. Black Bondage in the North. (1973)

Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 (1998)

Melish, Joanne Pope. "The Racial Vernacular: Contesting the Black/White Binary in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island." In Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (ed. Campbell, Pratt Guterl, and Lee, 2007).

Millar, John F. Top Ten Rhode Islanders from the Eighteenth Century.

Newell, Margaret Ellen. From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England (1998).

Newell, Margaret Ellen. "The Birth of New England in the Atlantic Economy" in Temin, Engines of Enterprise.

Piersen, Black Yankees. 

Roberts, Charles. In 1769, Newport was the rum capital of the world and the epicenter of the Triangle Trade. WUN.

Rommel-Ruiz, Bryan. Atlantic Revolutions: Slavery in Newport, Rhode Island and Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Era of the American Revolution (1999).

Selig, Robert A. Newport's Last Slave Auction. 

Watson Institute for International Studies. A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England. 2005

Zilian, Fred. Rhode Island Dominates North American Slave Trade in 18th Century.

Video

No Simple Truth: A minister and his slaves in Colonial Rhode Island

Local

Rhode Island Slave Medallions

The Battle of Rhode Island Association

Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade (En Compass, PVD Public Library)

The Battle of Pines Bridget Monument (En Compass, PVD Public Library)

South West View of Seat of Henry Marchant (En Compass, PVD Public Library)

Historic and Architectural Resources of Narragansett Rhode Island, RI Historic Preservation Commission

Historic and Architectural Resources of South Kingstown, RI, A Preliminary Report, RI Historic Preservation Commission

Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, RI

Primary Sources

Hazard, Thomas B. Nailer Tom's Diary, otherwise The Journal of Thomas B. Hazard of Kingstown Rhode Island 1788-1840. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1930. 

Letter from Thomas Nichols, asking master to be brought home to his house

Many great details on life of the day in the article linked above...Wages, medical practice, children, etc.

Teaching the Story of “Universal Liberty” in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Review of Edward J. Larson’s American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1795.

Lonnon Philips’s Sharecropping Agreement in 18th Century North Kingstown (By Tim Cranston)

A Lonely Country: The Trials of Esther Smith (by Robert A. Geake)

A Complicated History: Charlestown exhibit to highlight slavery in South County

South Kingstown’s Partial Census for 1730: Whites, Indians and Blacks (Christian McBurney) 

Elisha Potter Jr., Thomas Commuck, and Indigenous Land Claims from the Brothertown Narragansetts (Robert A Geake) 

Schooling for Enslaved Youth in Newport Before the Revolution (Marian Mathison Desrosiers) 

Narragansett Indian Last Names Over the Centuries (Christian McBurney) 

An Enslaved Teenager’s Journey from Warren, to Providence and Finally to the British Caribbean (Christian McBurney)