Remembering Roger Williams
Exiled As A Dissenter, Yet Moved to Seek Civil Consent
1635
Roger Williams, exiled as a religious dissenter from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in October 1635, is famous for founding the "tolerant" colony eventually known as Rhode Island. Yet Williams' toleration came at the price of the very purity he sought when a dissenter--a paradox we explore through two of his letters this month.