On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... Master Roger Williams : A Biography ( New York : Octagon Books , 1973 ) , chapter 3. Winslow's biography remains the most detailed account of Williams's life , particularly of his boyhood in England . 2. Ibid . , 28 . shorthand ( a ...
... Master Hall of Roxbury " who sent the text to Cotton for his reaction . However Cotton came to possess An Humble Supplication , he seems to have sent at least a copy of his response ( that is , this letter ) to Wil- liams , whether or ...
... of the colony at risk for much of Williams's political tenure . See Winslow , Master Roger Williams , especially chapters 10 , 11 , and 15 . tempted unsuccessfully to domesticate Ninigret , a Narragansett sachem who INTRODUCTION 33.
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