Roger Williams was an English colonist, Puritan minister, and key founder of Rhode Island whose ideas transformed colonial notions of religious liberty. Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his unorthodox views, he established Providence as a refuge for dissenters and became a leading advocate of freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state. He also founded the first Baptist church in America.
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