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Rocky Hill School 2022 Voices

Potowomut is known by the Narragansett as their sacred meeting and hunting grounds. Beginning In 1680, African and Indigenous people were enslaved by the Greene family to steward the land until 1779. The property was then purchased by the Brown family, who owned it for over a century before it became the campus of Rocky Hill Day School – The Voices Who Had No Voice..

This entry was posted in RI Slave History Medallion, Video on May 7, 2022 by Charles Roberts.

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