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John Brown House Museum Exhibit: Dark Work

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

This page is an online supplement to the exhibit Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island, based on Christy Clark-Pujara’s book of the same title.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Free African Union Society and the Fight for Black Freedom in Post-Revolutionary Rhode Island
Dutchess Quamino, Slavery, and Skilled Female Labor in Colonial Rhode Island
Jane Coggeshall’s Self-Emancipation in Revolutionary Rhode Island
References to Named Enslaved/Free Persons of Color in Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

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