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Pokanoket or Wampanoag?: The Origins of Names
The Indigenous people who first interacted with the Pilgrims in 1620 identified as Pokanoket, not Wampanoag. The widespread use of “Wampanoag” to describe this group is a colonial-era distortion that …
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Job E. Townsend Coffin Accounts and Newport Town Council Records: Research of African American Ancestors
Newspaper obituaries for African American residents who died in Newport, Rhode Island, in the decades after the American Revolution are sparse in number. When they were in the Newport Mercury, …
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