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Anthropology Professor Richard Lobban, a fellow Pawtuxet Village resident. The two began to talk about Stewart’s project when Lobban brought up the fact that John Brown, who is credited with organizing the Gaspee incident, was a trader of rum and slaves. According to a RIC press release about the documentary, Lobban believes the Gaspee incident was not motivated by patriotic freedom, but commercial freedom. “The issue of the day was taxation without representation, which meant taxation of the slave trade and rum business,” said Lobban.