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1844
A cynical look at the opposition to American annexation of Texas during the 1844 campaign. At the he…
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Sullivan Dorr (1778-1858) was a prosperous businessman and President of the Washington Insurance Com…
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1844-10-28
Dorr Liberation Stock was used to raise money for the cost of bringing Dorr's case by writ of e…
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During the period of the rebellion many mass suffrage meetings and suffrage clambakes were held. Usu…
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Dr. Erik J. Chaput on Race and the Dorr Rebellion
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Dr. Erik J. Chaput on Women and the Dorr Rebellion
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Dr. Patrick T. Conley on the Law and Order Constitution
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Dr. Raymond Lavertue on Dorr and the Anti-Slavery Movement
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1841-11-18
In February 1841 the Rhode Island legislature, with both the House and Senate acting jointly, passed…
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1842
This broadside was issued for the constitutional vote of March 1842. It suggests to suffrage support…
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1842
This anti-Dorrite broadside celebrates the March 1842 defeat of the General Assembly's proposed…
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1842-09
During the height of the turmoil of the Dorr Rebellion in the spring of 1842, the legislature called…
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1803
Lydia Allen Dorr (1782 – 1859) was the mother of Thomas Wilson Dorr. This portrait, an oil painting…
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1842-06-25
Thomas Dorr issued a proclamation on June 25th 1842 calling for the Peoples' Government to reco…
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1841-11-18
On July 20, 1841 the Rhode Island Suffrage Association called upon the people of the state to elect…
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1841-11-18
On July 20, 1841 the Rhode Island Suffrage Association called upon the people of the state to elect…
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1842
On April 18, 1842 the suffrage party held an extra-legal election to select state officers under the…
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1842
This print drawn from a daguerreotype of Thomas Dorr was done in Philadelphia in 1842 by William War…
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1842
This image was engraved from a daguerreotype of Thomas W. Dorr and was executed by Archibald L. Dick…
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This inn, owned by Dorrite supporter Jedediah Sprague, was used as Dorr's Headquarters during h…
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In June 1842, President John Tyler sent additional Federal troops to Rhode Island in case their serv…