Here is a call for an Antislavery Convention in Rhode Island, with a long list of more than two columns of names who are signers, showing wide activity by towns…
January 16, 1836
May 7, 1836
These resolutions express a similar view as those from the Mass Legislature (April 9), yet at the same time they encourage a free press. To punish the authors of treasonable…
September 12, 2006
March 18, 1842 The Executive Committee of the Rhode Island State Anti-Slavery Society has voted resolutions calling for the state to remove from its Constitution the word “white”, which restricts…
May 14, 2007
February 24, 1860 A brief article refers to the continuing attempt to seek “abolition of the colored or caste schools of that State.” While the movement to abolish those schools…