Naval History | Keith Stokes: Slave Trade in America

Black History Month
"Newport, R.I. as a Center for the Slave Trade in America"
Feb. 15, 2012

Director of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. and noted historian Keith Stokes gave a lecture to a full house in the Spruance Auditorium at the U.S. Naval War College on Feb. 15. In this lecture, Stokes talks about the Rhode Island Slave Trade during the 17th and 18th centuries. The lecture was organized by the Naval Station Newport's Diversity Committee. During the 17th and 18th centuries, one of three Newport residents were slaves that were brought over from Ghana. Stokes explained that while slaves in Rhode Island were treated vastly different than those who worked on southern plantations, they were still slaves.

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