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S3E3 - "Cotton Mill Fever"

1808 - 1824 | With the Jefferson Embargo and the War of 1812 causing a significant decline in maritime trade, Rhode Island businessmen look to textile manufacturing as...

S3E4 - "Peaceably if we can, Forcibly if we must"

1832 - 1841 | After a decade of attempting to modernize the state's archaic political institutions, the people of Rhode Island come to the conclusion that the only way...

S3E5 - The Dorr Rebellion

1841 - 1845 | Thomas Wilson Dorr leads a political upheaval aimed at modernizing the state's archaic and extremely undemocratic government.My Favorite Books on this To...

S3E6 - The Execution of John Gordon

1843 - 1845 | Following the murder of wealthy industrialist Amasa Sprague, Irish immigrant John Gordon is unjustly executed for the crime.My Favorite Books on this Top...

S3E7 - Off to War

1859 - 1861 | Rhode Island's political and military leaders respond as America is thrust into Civil War.My Favorite Books on this Topic:History of the Rhode Island com...