Roger Williams: Founder of Rhode Island

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Complete Record: Dramatically depicts the life of Roger Williams from his arrival to the New World until the time of the “heresy” trial which resulted in his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Re-creates the conflict of Roger Williams and the Puritan leaders of New England and explains his concern over the separation of the New World Church and the Church of England, the separation of church and state, religious persecution, freedom of conscience, freedom of inquiry, and the protection of minority groups.


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