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« on: July 01, 2009, 08:00:26 AM »
I haven't seen any evidence that "plantation" in R.I. had any of the connotation of slavery that it had in the south. It appears that R.I.'s connections to slavery were via the slave trade and individual smallholders and had nothing to do with "Providence Plantations."
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