Author: Kenneth Walsh
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1496935438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before the American Revolution, Newport was one of the biggest ports on the eastern seaboard thanks to its religious freedom and lack of effective control by Britain. Its then free-running economy based on international trading would face many challenges and changes over the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author: Rhode Island Development Council
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur B. Laffer
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Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780982231524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rhode Island Economic Policy Council
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Encapsulates the guiding principles and vision that provide a foundation for the state's economic development initiatives.
Author: United States. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Regional Economic Analysis Division
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christy Clark-Pujara
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1479855634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Lynne Withey
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780873957519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the early decades of the eighteenth century, Rhode Island had developed a commercial economy with not one, but two centers. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island is the tale of these two cities: Newport, fifth largest city in the colonies, and the much smaller Providence. This absorbing history of two interdependent cities in a restricted region shows how they developed, competed with each other, and eventually traded places as major and secondary economic centers within the region. The book has drawn upon the substantial body of local and regional history of colonial America. Unlike other studies, which concentrate on the social structure and family life of rural communities, Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island explores the relationship between economic development and social structure in an urban setting. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Revolution on the two cities, and the ways in which the war, combined with general economic trends, transformed Providence into Rhode Island's major city.
Author: Rhode Island Development Council
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rhode Island Strategic Development Commission
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Represents the results of a year long study of Rhode Island's economy examining the state's economic future.