What to see in America . The Old Newport Mill Rhode Island 59. The State House, Providence The early settlers called it Rhode Island, probably becauseit was in a bay that furnished good anchorages. The wordrhode, or r-o-a-d,as it is more cor-rectly spelled, isused by sailorsto designate justsuch an anchor-ing place. Aquid-necks first set-tiers came in1636 as the re-sult of a violenttheological dis-pute in Boston caused by the teachings of Mrs. AnneHutchinson. Newport first won fame as a slave port — the greatest inAmerica. For a long time its ships carried 1800 hogsheads of rum annuallyto Afri
What to see in America . The Old Newport Mill Rhode Island 59. The State House, Providence The early settlers called it Rhode Island, probably becauseit was in a bay that furnished good anchorages. The wordrhode, or r-o-a-d,as it is more cor-rectly spelled, isused by sailorsto designate justsuch an anchor-ing place. Aquid-necks first set-tiers came in1636 as the re-sult of a violenttheological dis-pute in Boston caused by the teachings of Mrs. AnneHutchinson. Newport first won fame as a slave port — the greatest inAmerica. For a long time its ships carried 1800 hogsheads of rum annuallyto Africa to beexchanged fornegroes, golddust, and wereowned for do-mestic servantsby every well-to-do family inthe town. Atthe beginning ofthe RevolutionNewport was commercially more important than New British occupied it for three years and left it only a shadowof its former self. Nor did it recover until the middle of
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