Providence

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10/5/2021
  

  Before Rhode Island's State House was Built, a Providence Mob Destroyed the Neighborhood

  A drunken sailor's brawl in 1831 kicked off four days of rioting targeting the free Black population of the Snowtown neighborhood; the stigma attached to the area allowed the state of Rhode Island to raze the area to build the state capitol.