Rhode Island to change it's formal name

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Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo has signed an executive order announcing the state would move forward with changing its official name due to its ties to American slavery. The state’s official name, “The State of*Rhode Island*and Providence Plantations,” appears on state documents. But the order would shorten it to just “Rhode Island”. ... Harold Metts, Rhode Island’s only Black state senator, introduced the 2020 bill. He said: “Whatever the meaning of the term ‘plantations’ in the context of Rhode Island’s history, it carries a horrific connotation when considering the [country’s] tragic and racist history.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...vernor-slavery

Given the ignorance some people demonstrate it's perhaps unexpected that the article does not mention the actual original meaning of "plantation": it's an older English word for colony and had nothing to do with racism or slavery.

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