EnCompass – RI History Textbook

EnCompass

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    • Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island
    • Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution
    • Before Rhode Island: Early Peoples and Archaeology
    • Immigration to Rhode Island
    • The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
    • Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
    • African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
    • Narragansett History
    • On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
    • Rhode Island in the American Revolution
    • Rhode Island and the Civil War
    • The Underground Railroad in Rhode Island
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Stone Knife

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