“Strange Mismanagement:” The Capture Of The HMS Syren
After a British fleet of seventy-one warships and transports entered Narragansett Bay on December 7, 1776, and the next day landed soldiers that occupied Newport, Rhode Island, as well as …
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Rhode Island’s Four Stages of the American Revolutionary War
Rhode Island’s role in the American Revolutionary War that raged from 1775 to 1783 is wide-ranging and complicated. It is yet another example of how Rhode Island’s history is way …
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A Prison Ship in Providence Harbor and Enemy Prisoners of War in Rhode Island During the Revolutionary War
In researching my last book entitled Citizen Soldiers, I came upon many references and stories of those American prisoners who suffered terribly in the makeshift jails of urban confinement or …
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An Enslaved Mother Rescues Her Family from being Transported to the South—And Spurs a Law Change
In the early days of the abolition movement in the United States, by necessity, abolitionist work had to come primarily from white people because, before the American Revolution, most black …
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Mariners Beware – Shipwrecks in Rhode Island – Point Judith
Point Judith is a small point of land located about midway between the eastern and western borders of the state. To the east and north of the point the waters …
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