Most people when they hear the word slave think of a plantation in the south but slavery was a lot closer to home. This film tells short narratives of enslaved and free Africans in colonial Rhode Island using 18thc carved burial markers from 'God's Little Acre' in the Common Burying Ground in Newport. The camera follows Keith Stokes as he tells the stories of the contributions these early Newporters made, including Dutchess Quamino the Pastry Queen of Rhode Island and Pompe Stevens the first African-American artist. The film score is "Crooked Shanks", period music attributed to Newport Gardner, a free African who composed and taught music.
