Roger Williams - Gaustad, Edwin S
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The book discusses Williams' journey back to London, where he sought legal recognition of his colony, spread his enlightened views on Native Americans, and (alongside John Milton) fought passionately for religious freedom. Gaustad also describes how the royal charter of Rhode Island, obtained by Williams in 1663, would become the blueprint of religious freedom for many other colonies and a foundation stone for the First Amendment. Here, then is a vibrant portrait of a great American who is truly worthy of remembrance.
A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative…mehr

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The book discusses Williams' journey back to London, where he sought legal recognition of his colony, spread his enlightened views on Native Americans, and (alongside John Milton) fought passionately for religious freedom. Gaustad also describes how the royal charter of Rhode Island, obtained by Williams in 1663, would become the blueprint of religious freedom for many other colonies and a foundation stone for the First Amendment. Here, then is a vibrant portrait of a great American who is truly worthy of remembrance.
A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative biography of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, and a colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights. Illustrations.
Autorenporträt
Edwin S. Gaustad is Professor of History and Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of California at Riverside. An authority on Roger Williams and on the subject of religious freedom, he is the author of Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America and Church and State in America, and is co-author of the award-winning The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America.