Museum on slave trade planned for former Episcopal cathedral in Providence [View all]

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Note: there is also a seven part series, "Unrighteous Traffick: Rhode Island's Slave History" at this link:
http://www.providencejournal.com/extra/2006/slavery/?click=RB

The Providence Journal
Museum on slave trade planned for former Episcopal cathedral in Providence
Published: November 16, 2014
By PAUL DAVIS
Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A shuttered church could soon shine a light on Rhode Island’s dark role in the slave trade.

Church leaders hope it will also help heal a divided state and nation.

The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island wants to use part of the Cathedral of St. John for a museum that will look at those who made money in the slave trade — and those who opposed it. Churchgoers and clergymen filled both camps.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Rhode Islanders backed 1,000 trips between Africa and the Americas. Newport, Bristol and Providence were among the busiest slave trade ports in North America....

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