US Representative Seth Magaziner’s mother-in-law, Jennifer McDowell, testifies for the bill, saying, “I deserve the right to ...

Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to ban slavery. The good intentions of those who wrote the law, ...

It remains a stronghold of America's colonial past — the oldest surviving tavern in the U.S. that a 17th-century pirate once ...

but was eventually banned from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a whole for his religious beliefs. Feeling old? 5 of the oldest places in Rhode Island you can still see today Originally fleeing from ...