Blacks in Rhode Island, a heritage discovered / by Rowena Stewart ; illustration and design by Lawrence Sykes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Rowena, 1932-

Contributor:

Sykes, Lawrence, illustrator, designer.

Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, host institution.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Rhode Island--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

History.

Rhode Island--History--African Americans.

Rhode Island.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

39 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, map, portraits ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Heritage discovered Blacks in Rhode Island

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, 1976.

Contents:

The Yankee Trader/The New England Slaver 1692-1784

"To Remove African Slaves from Their Pagan Darkness"

Unmarked Monuments to the Black Craftsman

"That a Battalion of Negroes Can Easily be Raised Here"

"A Monument Should be Erected to These Brave Soldiers"

African Union Society Founded in Newport 1780

Linking Up

A Dream Fulfilled

Meeting Spiritual and Educational Needs

Descendants of the African Union Society

Seeking Viable Lifestyles in Turbulent Times

A Recurring Dream and Persistent Struggle

An American of Heroic Dimension

"Passing Through ... Following the North Star"

A Rhode Island Family Album-The Rices of Jamestown

Sissy Joyner-Sisseretaa Jones-Black Patti

The Bannisters of Providence

John Minkins-The Ghost Writer

To Be Continued.

Notes:

A project of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

865637065