After growing up in Kingston, Rhode Island, and attending Brown University, Christian became an attorney in Washington, D.C., and raised a family in Kensington, Maryland. He is the author of four b...ver maisAfter growing up in Kingston, Rhode Island, and attending Brown University, Christian became an attorney in Washington, D.C., and raised a family in Kensington, Maryland. He is the author of four books on Rhode Island and the American Revolution, most recently Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade (Westholme, 2022). To learn more about his books, visit www.christianmcburney.com. Christian is also the founder, publisher and chief editor of a leading Rhode Island history blog at www.smallstatebighistory.com.ver menos