The Economic History of Newport Rhode Island: From the Colonial Era to Beyond the War of 1812 by Kenneth Walsh

The Economic History of Newport Rhode Island: From the Colonial Era to Beyond the War of 1812

Kenneth Walsh

222 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Thanks to the efforts of Roger Williams and the Rev. John Clarke Rhode Island was the first secular state of its time. There was religious freedom and no effective control by Britain over the colony. In this environment a free running economy deve...

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