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Providence Plantations. Providence Plantation was a colonial plantation that was the first permanent European American settlement in present-day Rhode Island. It was established at Providence in 1636 by English clergyman Roger Williams and a small band of followers who had left the oppressive atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to seek freedom of worship.
A plantation is a large piece of land where crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.