Middletown High School The Trial of Fortune Stoddard: Race, Patriotism, and Solidarity in Revolutionary Rhode Island
909 East Main Road, Middletown, Rhode Island, United States
Join historian and Johnson & Wales University professor Michael J. Simpson for a special Veterans Day lecture exploring the remarkable life of Fortune Stoddard, a Black Revolutionary War veteran born enslaved in Middletown, Rhode Island, in 1757. Drawing on military records, court documents, census records, and newly examined testimony surrounding an extraordinary 1781 murder trial,
