Titled "Sketches on Negroes and Events in Rhode Island 1696 - 1970," this unfinished manuscript presents a timeline of African American history in Rhode Island from 1696 to 1819. The timeline includes the introduction of slavery; African American participation in the American Revolution; the abolition of slavery; and the establishment of African American churches.
Pages in the main body of the manuscript are numbered 1-15. Page 7 is missing from the Carl Russell Gross collection. Supplemental materials were found interfiled with the manuscript pages. The supplements expand upon, and may have been the sources for, Manuscript B.
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Dr. Carl Russell Gross papers, MSS-0002, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
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