Bowen's Wharf - Credits and Research Sources

Prepared by: Dr Fred Zilian (In Coordination with: Bob Geake & Charles Roberts)

Research Sources

  1. Clark-Pujara, Christy. Dark Work, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. NY: New York University Press, 2016.
  2. Coughtry, Jay. The Notorious Triangle, Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
  3. Brayton, Alice, and John Howard Benson. The burying place of Governor Arnold. Newport, R.I.: Privately printed, 1960.
  4. Research Report for the Bowen’s Wharf Company by Bert Lippincott, Newport Historical Society, December 19, 2019.
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