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Conversations at the Castle

  • Meeting Under Occupation

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Newport 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…

  • The Untold Story: Rhode Island African Americans as Loyalists

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Jamestown 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…