Rhode Island History Journal, Vol. 41, May 1982

In this issue:

Lewis Hine’s Photography and Reform in Rhode Island by Stephen Victor

The ‘Particular Courts’ of Local Government: Town Councils in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island by Bruce C. Daniels

A Search for Power: The “Weaker Sex” in Seventeenth-Century New England, by Lyle Koehler, reviewed by Laura Thatcher Ulrich

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807, by Jay Coughtry, reviewed by Edward M. Cook Jr.

So Few the Brave; Rhode Island Continentals, 1775-1783, by Anthony Walker, reviewed by Albert T. Klyberg

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