Abstract
This issue, we go back to the eighteenth century to delve into two very different aspects of life in Newport. In his “Freedom for African Americans in British-Occupied Newport, 1776-1779, and ‘The Book of Negroes,’” Christian McBurney explores the experience of some African-Americans during the American Revolution. Gabriella Angeloni’s article, “Writing in Books: Lessons on New England Readers from the Ellery Library Collection,” gives us a window into eighteenth-century Newport readers through their private libraries.
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Stevens, Elizabeth C.
(2017)
"Editor’s Note,"
Newport History: Journal of the Newport Historical Society: Vol. 87:
Iss.
276, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/newporthistory/vol87/iss276/1
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