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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Rhode Island</title>
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		<title>R.I. to vote on changing state&#8217;s name</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/r-i-to-vote-on-changing-states-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about the movement in Rhode Island to remove the words &#8220;Providence Plantations&#8221; from the state&#8217;s name. Supporters argue that these words constitute an offensive reminder of the state&#8217;s, and the nation&#8217;s, history of slavery.
Last night, the R.I. state legislature approved the constitutional amendment which would change the state&#8217;s name. The measure will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;‘Plantations’ in state’s name is offensive remnant of slavery trade&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously blogged about the grassroots effort in Rhode Island to change the state&#8217;s name. In short, this movement seeks to remove the words &#8220;Providence Plantations&#8221; on the ground that the word &#8220;plantation&#8221; is now too intertwined with slavery.
There is a letter to the editor in today&#8217;s edition of the Newport (R.I.) Daily News arguing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown University to erect slave trade memorial</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/brown-university-to-erect-slave-trade-memorial/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/brown-university-to-erect-slave-trade-memorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown University announced plans yesterday to build a memorial to commemorate Brown&#8217;s historic connections to the slave trade, possibly in Bristol or neighboring Newport, Rhode Island.
The announcement was made by the university&#8217;s Commission on Memorials, and is part of Brown&#8217;s effort to implement the recommendations of a 2006 report by the Steering Committee on Slavery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the name of Rhode Island</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/changing-the-name-of-rhode-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an active movement within Rhode Island to amend the state constitution to change the official name of the state, &#8220;The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.&#8221;
This change would remove &#8220;Providence Plantations&#8221; from the name of the state, on the grounds that the word &#8220;plantations&#8221; now has an historic association with chattel slavery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel on slavery and the slave trade</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/06/panel-on-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/06/panel-on-slavery-and-the-slave-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I&#8217;ll be in Newport, R.I. to participate in a panel discussion on &#8220;The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Rhode Island.&#8221;
I&#8217;ll be speaking about the Rhode Island slave trade and the example of the D&#8217;Wolf family of Bristol, R.I., who were the nation&#8217;s leading slave traders. My fellow panelists will be Jim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Providence Journal on &#8220;The DeWolf Family Burden&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/providence-journal-on-the-dewolf-family-burden/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/providence-journal-on-the-dewolf-family-burden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Davis, the Providence Journal writer who has previously chronicled Traces of the Trade and the history of the slave trade in Rhode Island, has a new feature story about Tom DeWolf&#8217;s Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Family in U.S. History in Sunday&#8217;s edition (available online now).
As we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Providence Journal reviews &#8220;Inheriting the Trade&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/providence-journal-reviews-inheriting-the-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/02/providence-journal-reviews-inheriting-the-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Providence Journal, which has frequently covered Traces of the Trade and other stories relating to the history of Rhode Island and the slave trade, has a review in Sunday&#8217;s edition of Tom DeWolf&#8217;s Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History.
The book review is a companion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom DeWolf on C-SPAN</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/01/tom-dewolf-on-c-span/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2008/01/tom-dewolf-on-c-span/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we were in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, my cousin Tom DeWolf appeared on C-SPAN 2&#8217;s Book TV. The program, which ran an hour and 15 minutes, can currently be viewed online here.
The program, which aired on Jan. 19 and 20, was a recording of Tom&#8217;s book tour appearance at Linden Place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screening with educators</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/11/screening-with-educators/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/11/screening-with-educators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we held a screening of Traces of the Trade in Providence for Rhode Island educators.
The screening, sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and hosted by Rhode Island College, was intended to solicit feedback on the uses of the film in the classroom context.
The screening, which took place in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News coverage of screenings</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/11/news-coverage-of-screenings-2/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2007/11/news-coverage-of-screenings-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local Rhode Island screenings of Traces are generating a fair amount of attention in the state.
Tuesday&#8217;s screening in Bristol has resulted in two stories, one in the Providence Journal (&#8220;Bristol&#8217;s Ties to Slavery Featured&#8220;) and another in a local paper, &#8220;Slavery Documentary Draws a Packed House.&#8221; This is precisely what we were hoping for, as [...]]]></description>
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