Sons of Providence
Subtitle: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780743266888
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Slavery & emancipation; Rhode Island - Local History; U.S. History - Slavery Question And Abolitionism; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Historical - General; United States - Colonial Period; United States - Revolutionary War; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
First sentence: THIS IS THE STORY of two brothers whose lives spanned the course of the American Revolution and whose sibling rivalry encompassed all the painful dilemmas that attended the dawn of the new era.