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Rhode Island Colonists engaged in acts of resistance against the British a decade before the American Revolution officially began.

Key events included firing on British ships, burning the HMS Gaspee, and holding a Tea Party in Providence.

In May 1774, Providence voters passed a resolution to seek an end to the importation of enslaved people.

Rhode Island renounced its allegiance to King George III on May 4, 1776, two months before the national Declaration of Independence.

PROVIDENCE – Every schoolkid of a certain age knows that the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. They can probably even recite the "one if by land, and two if by sea" line from Longfellow's poem about Paul Revere's midnight ride .

But the sp

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