Bringing race back into the history of the Dorr Rebellion, this article, grounded in deep archival research, demonstrates that Providence attorney Thomas Wilson Dorr's attempt at extralegal reform stirred the fears of slavery's proponents and opponents alike, thus unwittingly undermining the very reform his initiative was designed to advance: universal male suffrage.

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