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S1E1 - Roger Williams, the Lone Radical

S1E1 - Roger Williams, the Lone Radical

The Story of Rhode Island

March 5, 202322m 8s

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Show Notes

1631 - 1632 | Roger Williams arrives in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and begins advocating for religious freedom. 



My Favorite Books on This Topic:


Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty  by John M. Barry


Roger Williams: The Church and the State by Edmund Morgan  by Edmund Morgan


Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon


*Map image from Rhode Island Boundaries by John H Cady.


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Rhode IslandhistoryRhode Island history