Hazard Rodman Families – Textile Mills and the Slave Cloth Trade, with Tim Cranston | South County Museum Summer Speaker Series

The Hazard and Rodman families, their Textile Mills and the Slave Cloth Trade. Tim Cranston, North Kingstown town historian and author will do a presentation on the Hazard and Rodman families, their local textile mills and their involvement in the slave cloth trade.

Lecture by Tim Cranston

Registration is not required. Visit the museum’s website for more information.

The Summer Speaker Series is free lectures and presentations by local historians, authors, and traditional craftspeople to mark the Museum’s 90th birthday. Series topics will include the connection of Rhode Island’s textile mills to the slavery economy, encounters among the Narragansett people and Roger Williams, and the history of trap fishing in the state.