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Roger Williams’s Providence Colony and Religious Liberty Experiment
Roger Williams had a wild idea in 1635: let folks pray how they want. It cost him his home in Massachusetts when leaders kicked him out for his “dangerous opinions.”
He fled on foot through snow, then got help from Chief Massasoit. By spring, Williams bought land from Narragansett chiefs and named it Providence…