(6.16) Join the Snowtown Project Research Team for a walking conversation about Snowtown, a small mixed-race neighborhood, now gone. The team has been delving into archives to help reconstruct the neighborhood once located on the north shore of the Providence Cove. Home to a variety of people sometimes unwelcome in the established center of Providence, …
This marker, located on lower Smith Street at the Roger Williams Memorial, commemorates the “Snowtown Riot 1831,” a project of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. But would this “riot” be better described as a “racially motivated mob attack?” Learn what modern historians, archaeologists, and analysts have to say about this dark moment in Providence …
(2.22) Head over to the Congdon Street Baptist Church Saturday afternoon for a lecture on the history of the Snowtown neighborhood as revealed through an archaeological excavation undertaken in the ’80s. (Facebook event page.) Heather Olson, Laboratory Manager for Public Archaeology Laboratory, will lead a discussion of the Providence Cove Lands Project; a large-scale archaeological …
Another installment of the Inspired Providence lecture series with former President of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Ray Rickman — How Providence Became a City: the Impact of the Hardscrabble and Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831. Early 19th century Americans viewed their world through the prism of the newspaper. . . . …
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