Posts tagged "history"
May 3, 2012
February 27, 2012
Brown researchers find it hard to read Roger Williams's diary
“At the end of the day, this is a proprietary, improvised scheme that wasn’t meant to communicate anything to anybody else.”
August 18, 2011
Most Prominent Politicians (XIII): Rhode Island
“[Y]ou wouldn’t expect a whole lot from Rhode Island’s prominent politician list.” Some of us wouldn’t expect a whole lot from Rhode Island, period.
June 28, 2011
Measure pardoning Irish immigrant John Gordon in 19th-century murder goes to R.I. governor | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal
Mill owner Amasa Sprague was beaten and shot to death on the banks of the Pocasset River on New Year’s Eve 1843. Suspicion soon fixed on the Gordon family, Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland. As widely told, Gordon was convicted of murdering Sprague after a trial rife with prejudice against Irish Catholics. Juries at the time were composed only of landowners, effectively eliminating any possibility his case would be decided by a jury that included his peers. John Gordon was hanged after his appeal failed before the same judges who heard his trial.
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fuck yeah rhode island.
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