Elizabeth Klauer
This list is for the purpose of organizing websites that I will need in order to complete my research and final project on Roger Williams for the National History Day.
Roger Williams (c. 1603 - between January and March 1683) was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities.
Roger Williams ... A Brief Biography Drypoint etching, 1936, by Arthur W. Heintzelman, commemorating the Tercentenary of the founding of Rhode Island by Roger Williams. Courtesy of Roger Williams University Archives.
Smithsonian article on Roger Williams
Article on the history of religious tolerance in the United States.
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Explore the life of Roger Williams - who founded the colony of Rhode Island on the belief that church and state should be separated - as we visit the First Baptist Church in America which he founded as well. Visit: http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/Providence
"Williams was really America's first individualist, the first contradictor of authority, the first rebel," explains John M. Barry, author of Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty.
Pilgrims and Puritans came to America seeking religious freedom for themselves. Roger Williams arrived seeking liberty of conscience for all: Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, unbeliever and pagan.
Pilgrims and Puritans came to America seeking religious freedom for themselves. Roger Williams arrived seeking liberty of conscience for all: Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, unbeliever and pagan.
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