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The “Mustard Seed”: Providence’s Alfred Niger, Antebellum Black Voting Rights Activist

By  •  August 1, 2020

Alfred Niger, a Black voting rights activist from Providence, may have provided the final straw that broke the back of the Dorr Rebellion.  His attempt to vote in an 1841 …
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George T. Downing and the Black Convention Movement

By  •  September 16, 2023

Fear not; no antagonism of interest would be the result of admitting in common to your workshops the colored mechanic, of admitting his child as an apprentice.

(Appeal to …
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