Hard Scrabble and Snow Town

"Snow Town" redirects here. For the town in Australia, see Snowtown, South Australia.
This article is about the town in Rhode Island, USA. For other uses, see Hardscrabble (disambiguation).

Hard Scrabble
Former neighborhood
Broadside ridiculing victims of the 1824 Hard Scrabble riot and promising similar treatment to other immigrants settling in the city
Broadside ridiculing victims of the 1824 Hard Scrabble riot and promising similar treatment to other immigrants settling in the city
Hard Scrabble is located in Rhode Island
Hard Scrabble
Hard Scrabble
Coordinates: 41°49′57″N 71°24′40″W / 41.8325°N 71.4111°W / 41.8325; -71.4111
CountryUnited States
StateRhode Island
CityProvidence
Establishedcirca 1800

Hard Scrabble (Addison Hollow) and Snow Town were two neighborhoods located in Providence, Rhode Island in the nineteenth century. They were the sites of race riots in which working-class white residents[1] destroyed multiple black homes and businesses in 1824 and 1831, respectively.[2][3]

  1. ^ Lambert, Raphaël (December 24, 2018). Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community. BRILL. p. 47. ISBN 9789004389229.
  2. ^ Hard-Scrabble Calendar: Report of the Trials... (Report). Providence RI. 1824. Archived from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024 – via Rhode Island History Navigator.
  3. ^ History of the Providence Riots, from Sept. 21 to Sept. 24 1831 (Report). Providence Committee of Riots. 1831. Archived from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024.