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Bristol, RI

Mar 16, 2008

Studying Our Racist Past

“The United States as a matter of policy doesn't want anything to do with slavery, period, because they think it inevitably leads to a reparations discussion”

For centuries they were known as the "great folk," wealthy and glamorous. In the seaside town of Bristol, Rhode Island, the DeWolfs were the luminaries: statesmen and professors, writers and wealthy merchants. via The Nation

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