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Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones: Rhode Island in Negro Minstrelsy by Horace G Belcher minstrel shows Providence entertainment theater African-American caricatures blackface Charles Duprez minstrel parade costumes female minstrels
Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: Political Reasons (concluded) by Hillman Metcalf Bishop U.S. Constitution paper money Rhode Island opposition debt payments Anti-Federalists Federalists ratification of U.S. Constitution Constitutional convention slavery Country Party
Index to the Early Records of the Town of Providence, vols. 1-21, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clarence S Brigham
A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775-1778, edited by Jeannette D. Black and William Greene Roelker, reviewed by Edmund S Morgan and Jeannette D. Black
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