Chaput, Erik J., and Russell J. DeSimone. “Strange Bedfellow:  The Politics of Race in Antebellum Rhode Island.” Common-Place 10 (2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-02/chaput-desimone/ "Early in the morning of May 18, 1842, Thomas Wilson Dorr, the "People's Governor," and a band of more than two hundred followers advanced on the state arsenal in Providence. The goal was simple: … Continue reading Chaput and DeSimone on “Strange Bedfellows”