Resources Available Online

“Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island Modernity” book talk with Christy Clark-Pujara at Brown University in 2017

“The Economic Activities of the Narragansett Planters: Framing Slavery in the Ernest Hamlin Baker Mural” by Charlotte Carrington-Farmer at the Cross Mills Public Library in 2020 (part one)

“The Economic Activities of the Narragansett Planters: Framing Slavery in the Ernest Hamlin Baker Mural” by Charlotte Carrington-Farmer at the Cross Mills Public Library in 2020 (part two)

“1934: A New Deal for Artists” by Smithsonian American Art Museum co-curator Ann Wagner in 2010

Website: “The Living New Deal”

Published Works

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (2016) by Christy Clark-Pujara

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (1978) by Jay Coughtry

Inventing New England’s Slave Paradise (1995) by Robert K. Fitts

The Negro in Colonial New England (1942) by Lorenzo Johnston Greene

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A history of slavery in New England (2019) by Jared Ross Hardesty

Wall-to-Wall America: Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression (2000) by Karal Marling

A History of Kingston, Rhode Island 1700-1900 (2004) by Christian McBurney

Black bondage in the North (1973) by E. McManus

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860 (1998) by Joanne Pope Melish

“The Narragansett Planters” (1933) by William Davis Miller and published by American Antiquarian Society

Why the New Deal Matters (2021) by Eric Rauchway

Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal (1984) by Marlene Park and Gerald Markowitz

New England Bound: Slavery and colonization in early America (2017) by Wendy Warren



This exhibit is made possible through major funding support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. The Council seeds, supports, and strengthens public history, cultural heritage, civic education, and community engagement by and for all Rhode Islanders.