2-798-461 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Great meeting in Rhode Island, 1844. Crowds gathered in Rhode Island, USA, to listen to Thomas Wilson Dorr, leader of the Dorr Rebellion. Dorr encouraged the disenfranchised, (ie non-landowners), to demand changes to the state's electoral rules - at that time the state was still using its 1663 colonial charter as a constitution. 'Among the banners we noticed the following, carried by the ladies, which fully evince their spirited feeling on this occasion: " We are Rhode Island women - friends of Liberty, Freedom, and equal and just laws"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.