Season 3 of the Story of Rhode Island will explore the transformation Rhode Island endured during the American Industrial Revolution and how the state went on to play an outsized role in the American Civil War.
9 episodes| 1789 - 1865
📜EP 1 | The Dawn of a New Era
📜EP 2 | Slater Mill & Slatersville
📜EP 3 | "Cotton mill fever"
📜EP 4 | "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must"
📜EP 5 | The Dorr Rebellion
📜EP 6 | The Execution of John Gordon
📜EP 7 | Off to War
📜EP 8 | The Civil War
📜EP 9 | Peace
Only a year after arriving in Rhode Island, Samuel Slater builds the revolutionary machines that will ignite the American Industrial Revolution.
23 minutes
Samuel Slater creates America's first water-powered cotton spinning mill and America's first factory town, giving Rhode Island the foundations it needs to move into the age of industrialization.
29 minutes
With the Jefferson Embargo and the War of 1812 causing a significant decline in maritime trade, Rhode Island businessmen look to textile manufacturing as a new source of income.
25 minutes
After a decade of attempting to modernize the state's archaic political institutions, the people of Rhode Island come to the conclusion that the only way they'll achieve their goals is by leveraging more revolutionary tactics.
26 minutes
Thomas Wilson Dorr leads a political upheaval aimed at modernizing that state's archaic and extremely undemocratic government.
27 minutes
Following the murder of wealthy industrialist Amasa Sprague, Irish immigrant John Gordon is unjustly executed for the crime.
31 minutes
Rhode Island's political and military leaders respond as America is thrust into Civil War.
25 minutes
General Burnside military career goes through a series of highs and lows as the Union goes through some of the darkest days of the entire Civil War.
25 minutes
After the men in Battery B help Union forces win the Battle of Gettysburg and another couple of years of hard fighting, Rhode Islanders can finally celebrate an end to hostilities.
25 minutes