First person point of view of vampires in Rhode Island history
When thinking about Rhode Island history, vampires is not often a
image that comes to mind right away, unless you are asking the right
person. Most will tell you of its colonial origins, or the booming
slave trade, or the dawn of the industrial revolution. Not many will
mention figures such as Nellie Vaughn or Mercy Brown. Unless, of
course, the person being asked is into that kind of thing. I am one
of these …
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…lt;Tab/>All in all, this project was good look into Rhode Island's darker
side of history. Rural communities of the 19th century went through
somewhat of a vampire hunt, with five vampire cases involving
exhumations altogether, dating back to 1796. Brown was the last
suspected vampire ever exhumed in the state in 1882. This obscure
period in Rhode Island's history is an interesting, yet rarely
mentioned subject, and I had fun learning about it.
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