Take a self-guided tour that explores Providence’s Black history from the early days of the Rhode Island colony to today ... Download a printable map from the Go Providence website.

The four original Rhode Island towns – Providence, Portsmouth, Newport and Warwick – existed as sovereign political entities prior to the formation of the colony of Rhode Island, and ...

Though Rhode Island’s Quaker population was starting to question slavery and the relatively young colony was looking for ways to differentiate itself from neighboring Massachusetts, the statute ...