Roger Williams: Religiously Tolerant

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Roger Williams is a man who was very religiously tolerant. He and his followers were expelled from the commonwealth because of their progressive views, this lead to the founding of Rhode Island. “Rhode Island became a sanctuary for those who found the strictures of the Massachusetts Bay insufferable: Separatist, Baptists, Seekers, Antinomians, Jews, and Quakers all found a home there.” (Baym 102). Roger Williams wanted the settlers to treat the Natives with respect, he viewed the new world as their land. Williams had conversed with the natives and suggested several key points the settlers should do to befriend them. “First, by what names they are distinguished” (Williams 104). You had to know what the natives wanted to be called instead of

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