Dr. Jabez Bowen House
- 39 Bowen Street, Providence, RI 02903
- Providence
Dr. Bowen provided medicines and care to the people of Providence. He also provisioned
slave ships with medicine chests and wrote instructions for slave captains to administer the
substances. At least three enslaved people lived in this house — Jenny, her daughter Dinah,
and Fortune.
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39 Bowen Street, Providence, RI 02903