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Ensuring a Prolific Fishery—Early Rhode Island Efforts to Manage Freshwater Fisheries
The earliest efforts in Rhode Island at what we might call “fisheries management” occurred before the arrival of the first White settlers. The Blackstone River had an enormous run of …
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Quaker Expulsions in Portsmouth During the Revolutionary War
[Note from the editor: The Society of Friends, informally known as the Quakers, in the seventeenth century had a major influence in Rhode Island, particularly in Newport County—the towns of …
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Anti-Catholic Know-Nothingism in Rhode Island, 1854-1856
[Note from the editor: The Know-Nothing Party, which became formally known as the American Party, made a splash in Rhode Island briefly from 1854 to 1856. Supporters of the Know …
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