Featured Stories

This database contains thousands of individuals—including enslaved, manumitted, and free people of African and Indigenous descent, enslavers, and slave traders—who lived and worked in Newport during the era of slavery. While the documentary record is often fragmentary, for some of these individuals we can paint a more detailed picture of their lived experiences, livelihoods, and webs of association. These records will be continually updated as we study the documents in our archive to recover the stories of Black and Indigenous Newporters.