Sons of Providence
Subtitle: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780743266871
Subjects: Slave trade; United States - Revolutionary War; Providence; History - U.S.; History; United States - Colonial Period; History: American; Slavery; Rhode Island; Historical - General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Biography; Merchants
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.