I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography"Mary Lee Settle's arresting narrative layers the approaching civil war in England with the emergence of a new order in Rhode Island, the first colony grounded in freedom of conscience and in the separation of church and state. Williams was, first and last, a champion of the individual against the entrenched power of any establishment, but such commitment had a cruel price. Banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, he endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians, during which time he wrote the first book on the language and customs of the native North Americans."--BOOK JACKET. |