Bristol Historical & Preservation Society Bristol, Rhode Island
401-253-7223
2020 ANNUAL APPEAL
THANK YOU FOR DONATING TO OUR ANNUAL APPEAL. WE FEEL SO LUCKY TO HAVE SUPPORTERS LIKE YOU.
We miss you!! While our building may be closed, our workaholic staff, Board, and volunteers are tirelessly preparing for when we reopen. It is so important that Bristol’s history—your history—continues to serve our local community, whether by Pandora's blog, socially distant walking tours, exhibits, or Zoom programs.
Your support matters more than ever during this pandemic. Whatever the amount, your donation is deeply appreciated.
Please stay safe!!
HAPPENINGS!
WELCOME TO THE BH&PS
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SLAVERY
TALES FROM JAIL NEWSLETTER
DUE TO COVID-19, the BH&PS is currently closed to visitors. While we are waiting to reopen, please feel free to contact the Society if you have questions or would like our historians to do research for you.
NOTE: We can now accommodate in-person research in our document room and library- - by appointment only -- on Thursday and Friday afternoons. Please call or email in advance for an appointment at 401-253-7223 or info@bhps.necoxmail.com.
Visit our Research and Reproduction page for details and associated costs for both in-person and remote research.
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We are putting our exhibits online, too, for you to enjoy.
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The Society is still looking for your personal stories about this pandemic and if and how it has taken its toll on you or your family.
TALES FROM JAIL NEWSLETTER
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SLAVERY
TALES FROM JAIL NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 2020 Issue
Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Read the latest History KIDS Tales from Jail Newsletter, researched, written, and designed entirely by four of Bristol's Mount Hope High School students.
Learn about how rum made in Bristol contributed to the Triangle Trade, about how horse breeding in RI became important to the sugar plantations, about how the James DeWolf family of Bristol led the illegal trade, about how the abolitionists took action against slavery, about how the 1st Rhode Island Regiment was known also as the "black regiment" during the Revolutionary War, and about how the states gradually enacted laws to end the practice of slavery.
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SLAVERY
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SLAVERY
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SLAVERY
Our Conversations About Slavery series over the past five months has concluded. We will continue with our programming in January of 2021,
Stay tuned!!