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Our Hidden History: Racism and Black suffrage in the Dorr Rebellion By Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone, Special To The Journal © Harper s Weekly This image of the Rev. Alexander Crummell appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1866. Erik Chaput, an occasional contributor to The Journal, teaches at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. Russell DeSimone is an independent historian in Middletown.  They helped to develop a website on the Dorr Rebellion, hosted by Providence College, that contains a wealth of digitized material for teachers: http://library.providence.edu/dorr/ The 1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island raised profound questions of citizenship. When white reformers claimed to speak on behalf of the disenfranchised, but refused to support Black voting rights, African Americans allied with the established government to put down the reformers revolt.  They understood the “privileges and immunities” clause of the 1787 federal Constitution to prov

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