Sons of Providence

Sons of Providence
Author: Charles Rappleye
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2007-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743266889

From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.

Something Upstairs

Something Upstairs
Author: Avi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545214912

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.

The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I.

The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I.
Author: William J. Brown
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781584655374

An exceptional firsthand account of the experiences of people of color in nineteenth-century Rhode Island

The Home Lots of the Early Settlers of the Providence Plantations

The Home Lots of the Early Settlers of the Providence Plantations
Author: Charles Wyman Hopkins
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Colonists
ISBN: 0806346809

Mr. Davidson's history of Wilkinson County takes on added importance owing to the 1852 fire in the county courthouse that destroyed a number of the county's pre-Civil War records. Indeed, the middle quarter of the book includes abstracts of several thousand Wilkinson County marriage records and, to a lesser extent, wills and Civil War muster rolls for Wilkinson County. The balance of the work is almost evenly divided between a narrative history of the county and genealogical and biographical essays treating about 100 Wilkinson County families.