God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace.



As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed...