Where did pirates hide in Rhode Island? Please help me
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James Bailey, armed with a metal detector, found Colonial buckles, pewter spoons, miniature cannonballs and one slim coin in a Middletown field that he said connects a spectacular Red Sea pirate heist directly to a ship that brought the first enslaved Africans to Rhode Island.
MIDDLETOWN — The first documented arrival of a ship bringing enslaved people direct from Africa to Newport, in 1696, was not a scheme by a Rhode Islander seeking his fortune in the slave trade. It was a scheme by a pirate who already had a fortune — an emperor's fortune — that he needed to hide in plain sight while crossing the Atlantic.
An amateur historian from Warwick, James Bailey, 52, arrived at this conclusion by way of historical research and his metal detector, which helped him find Colonial buckles, pewter spoons, a 1-pound cannonball and one slim coin, about the size of a dime. It's a dime on which a part of accepted Rhode Island history turns.
The coin, he said, is proof that the ship carrying abducted Africans to be sold in Newport was not only a Rhode Island first, but also the getaway plan for a spectacular Red Sea pirate heist.
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Pirates plundered their way around the world, but they spent their wealth in Newport. Hanged pirates were said to have been buried on Goat Island back in the day. Photography by Chris Vaccaro. Twenty-six men were marched out onto the sandy spit in Newport Harbor.