The Dorr War Treason, Rebellion, & the Fight for Reform in Rhode Island

The Dorr War: Treason, Rebellion, & the Fight for Reform in Rhode Island
English | 2 Nov. 2015 | ASIN: B011896NHA | 131 pages | EPUB (True) | 5.06 MB
The remarkable story of the bloody conflict that erupted in 1841 Rhode Island over allowing non-property owners to vote. The portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people's champion-but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People's Convention ratified a new constitution that extended voting rights to those without land, and Dorr was named governor. That act would spark a small civil war, and violence erupted as the people of the state stood sharply divided in a conflict that reached the president and United States Supreme Court. Author Rory Raven charts the tumultuous and ultimately tragic history of a man and a movement that were too far ahead of their time.