Life of Roger Williams, Founder of the State of Rhode Island.

ix, 221, 12 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Williams, facsimile of his handwriting appears as a plate in text. A biography of the founder of Rhode Island, by the professor of rhetoric at Brown University. Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by its Puritan leaders, and became an advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and equitable treatment of Native Americans.