Rough informational outline

Rough outline information:

Background information:I will describe what is going on at that time during the American Revolution throughout all the colonies, as well as Rhode Island alone.

Body (What I know as a colonist, and why I am a Patriot):
Right now this is just a section for the notes I am taking on the different sources I have found.

I. Rhode Island elected the first delegates Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward to the Continental Congress on June 15, 1774. Those representatives were from two different parts of Rhode Island, so there were two perspectives from one colony. “…, since the two factions contending for political supremacy were led by Samuel Ward from Westerly and Newport and Stephan Hopkins from Providence.” (Thompson 363-375)

II. I am a patriot because I most of the people in Rhode Island are, and I don‘t feel brave enough to speak out. “We the Delegates of the People of the State of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, duly elected and met in Convention, having maturely considered the Constitution for the United States of America, agreed to on the seventeenth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, by the Convention then assembled at Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a Copy whereof precedes these presents) and having also seriously and deliberately considered the present situation of this State, do declare and make known” (Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island)

III. The state of Rhode Island made it legal for the African Americans slaves could serve in the army against the British. “In February, 1778, the General Assembly of Rhode Island passed a precedent-breaking law permitting slaves to join the Revolutionary Army.”

Citations:
~The Ward-Hopkins Controversy and the American Revolution in Rhode Island: An Interpretation
Mack E. Thompson The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Jul., 1959), pp. 363-375 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

~Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/ratri.asp

~Title: Some Observations on the Black Regiment of Rhode Island in the American Revolution
Author(s): Lorenzo J. Greene
Source: The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), pp. 142-172
Publisher(s): Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2715341