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"Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum....
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Providence Community Library
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Stewart talks about her hometown in rural Georgia, her childhood being part of a sharecropper's family and moving to Rhode Island. Ethel also speaks of the South, religious experience, race relations, civil rights, mentions her relations Otis Austin and Mary Lee Thrower Austin and specific places: Fitzgerald, Georgia and Piney Woods, Georgia.
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Providence Community Library
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2015.
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English
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Interview between small branch manager at Providence Community Library and foster grandparent about her work with the libraries, her life in the north and south, and the experiences and individuals that have shaped her life. Carolyn Clements talks about growing up in Georgia vs. Providence, family and working at Washington Park Library. Also Carolyn talks about her own mother who was also a foster grandparent; what it's like to be a second generation...
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