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Meeting Under Occupation
Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RINewport and Portsmouth Quaker Meeting Houses During British Occupation of Rhode Island Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Caden "Rhode Island Quakers in the War of Independence" Quakers almost from their founding refused to participate in military activities, and Rhode Island Colony generally honored that position of conscience. The War of Independence challenged their position and forced hard…
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The Untold Story: Rhode Island African Americans as Loyalists
Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RIJamestown historian Peter Fay The pivotal role African Americans played in helping the British suppress rebel resistance in Rhode Island in the early years of the War of Independence has been largely overlooked. In 1775, General Nathanael Greene of Warwick condemned the burning of rebel houses in Jamestown, noting that “Col. Joseph Wanton's Negroes piloted…