Rhode Island in the Rebellion
Author | : Edwin Winchester Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edwin Winchester Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rory Raven |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1614231044 |
The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote. The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people’s champion—but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People’s Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting rights to those without land, and Dorr was named governor. That act would spark a small civil war, and violence erupted as the people of the state stood sharply divided in a conflict that reached the president and United States Supreme Court. Author Rory Raven charts the tumultuous and ultimately tragic history of a man and a movement that were too far ahead of their time.
Author | : Erik J. Chaput |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0700619240 |
In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr’s failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately led to an armed insurrection that was quickly quashed—and to a stiff sentence for Dorr himself. Nevertheless, as Erik Chaput shows, the Dorr Rebellion stands as a critical moment of American history during the two decades of fractious sectional politics leading up to the Civil War. This uprising was the only revolutionary republican movement in the antebellum period that claimed the people’s sovereignty as the basis for the right to alter or abolish a form of government. Equally important, it influenced the outcomes of important elections throughout northern states in the early 1840s and foreshadowed the breakup of the national Democratic Party in 1860. Through his spellbinding and engaging narrative, Chaput sets the rebellion in the context of national affairs—especially the abolitionist movement. While Dorr supported the rights of African Americans, a majority of delegates to the “People’s Convention” favored a whites-only clause to ensure the proposed constitution’s passage, which brought abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Abby Kelley to Rhode Island to protest. Meanwhile, Dorr’s ideology of the people’s sovereignty sparked profound fears among Southern politicians regarding its potential to trigger slave insurrections. Drawing upon years of extensive archival research, Chaput’s book provides the first scholarly biography of Dorr, as well as the most detailed account of the rebellion yet published. In it, Chaput tackles issues of race and gender and carries the story forward into the 1850s to examine the transformation of Dorr’s ideology into the more familiar refrain of popular sovereignty. Chaput demonstrates how the rebellion’s real aims and significance were far broader than have been supposed, encompassing seemingly conflicting issues including popular sovereignty, antislavery, land reform, and states’ rights. The People’s Martyr is a definitive look at a key event in our history that further defined the nature of American democracy and the form of constitutionalism we now hold as inviolable.
Author | : Edwin Winchester Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
Author | : STEPHEN. HOPKINS |
Publisher | : Gale Ecco, Print Editions |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781379633068 |
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W021994 Signed on p. 24: P------. Providence, in New-England, November 30, 1764. Attributed to Stephen Hopkins by Alden. Printed in December 1764. Cf. Alden. Providence: Printed by William Goddard, M.DCC.LXV [i.e., 1764]. 24p.; 4°
Author | : Joseph Story Pitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Dorr Rebellion, 1842 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M.E. Reilly-McGreen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 161423843X |
Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has the tallest tales. It's home to many larger-than-life men with exciting stories of mutiny, revolt and daring. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft tries to escape the grasp of the demonic "Night-Gaunts" that haunt him. Captain William Kidd, convicted of piracy and murder, is hung and left to rot as a warning for others pursuing a similar career path. And Samuel Slater, Father of the Industrial Revolution, may be a revolutionary in our eyes, but he is considered a treasonous rogue by the English. Travel with M.E. Reilly-McGreen as she follows up her book Witches, Wenches and Wild Women of Rhode Island with tales of the best and worst men The Ocean State has to offer.
Author | : Clarence Saunders Brigham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Rhode Island |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christian M. McBurney |
Publisher | : Westholme Pub Llc |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594161346 |
Chronicles the battle fought by the joint American and French forces against the British during the Revolutionary War, describing the complex, multi-faceted sea strategies and the controversial decisions made on both sides by the prominent patriots involved.
Author | : Christy Clark-Pujara |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1479855634 |
Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island 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. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.