On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31.01.2008 - 288 Seiten 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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... land rights of Native Americans . While in Plymouth , Williams served no congregation , so he supported himself by operating a trading post with the local Native American tribes , principally the Narragansett . ( Williams's father had ...
... land in New England be- longed to the Americans , Williams asserted , so it was not the king's place to be granting permission for the English to settle on it ; instead , the land should be purchased from the natives . Williams's attack ...
... land rights , and soon he added another political firestorm to the mix . In May 1635 , the Massachusetts General Court voted to require all male residents in the colony to take the Resident's Oath , as a way of soliciting a pledge of ...
... land wilderness . 9 Famously , Williams survived the winter with the help of his Narragansett friends , and in the spring he received from them land for his own settlement south of the Bay Colony , which he called " Providence . " His ...
... Land . " 16 Better to clamp down hard on religious deviance , for all the talk about liberty " signifieth the Reign of Satan , and not of Christ . " Therefore , as Cotton himself would write , " if a man hold forth & Professe any Errour ...
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