A Baptist minister’s 1834 biography of Roger Williams, the Puritan clergyman expelled from Massachusetts Bay for his views on church and state. Knowles follows him from England to Salem, through his banishment, his dealings with the Narragansett and his founding of Providence, to his long struggles to secure a charter and hold the colony together.
A foundational life of the American champion of religious freedom, quoting generously from his letters. Download the free EPUB.