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"""What immediately jumps out from The Precious Birthright is its wealth of new evidence documenting the agency of hitherto obscure leadership groups among Black men and women in Providence from the 1780s on, including their social position and relationships with each other, and their alliances with a sector of the city's white elites. This constitutes a significant deepening in the narrative of this state's free people of color.""--Van Gosse, author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War ""With convincing arguments and grounded in original research, The Precious Birthright is enlivened with portraits of remarkable Black political activists, writers, and organizers--and a series of tumultuous events, including remarkable examples of institution-building, violent attacks, and heartbreaking setbacks.""--John Wood Sweet, author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 and The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America."

""What immediately jumps out from The Precious Birthright is its wealth of new evidence documenting the agency of hitherto obscure leadership groups among Black men and women in Providence from the 1780s on, including their social position and relationships with each other, and their alliances with a sector of the city's white elites. This constitutes a significant deepening in the narrative of this state's free people of color.""--Van Gosse, author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War ""With convincing arguments and grounded in original research, The Precious Birthright is enlivened with portraits of remarkable Black political activists, writers, and organizers--and a series of tumultuous events, including remarkable examples of institution-building, violent attacks, and heartbreaking setbacks.""--John Wood Sweet, author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 and The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.

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CJ Martin teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emerson College. His work has appeared in journals such as Rhode Island Historyand Commonplace.

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