Who Is Roger Williams Alienated

Most people go through life not worrying about others thoughts, just throwing stereotypes around without any justification or knowledge of the person being alienated. Some are ungrateful for the religious freedom that most of us are able to carry. Some do not realize the fight that people went through over 300 years ago to gain religious freedom and work through and around the profiling given by the hierarchy of society. No one worked harder for the freedoms to be provided and stereotypes to be dissolved than Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Williams, born in London in 1603, was a seasoned young man early on, after witnessing many burnings at the stake of puritans for being "heretics" and not following the religion of the Church of England. Several years after graduating from Cambridge University, Williams decided to take his wife, and come to the Massachusetts colony in 1630. In the colonies, Williams felt it was best for a man who continually spoke out against the Church of England for being too involved in the Government actions, to be rather than face the fire of being a heretic. After reading "Roger Williams", a biography written by Edwin Gaustad, the feelings, thoughts, and
Like every biography, it has to show a story that benefits the person being written on, how they progressed through struggles, followed their own ideas, and won out in the end long after their death, but Gaustad did more than that. Gaustad was not afraid, early on, to show how Williams's ignorance and stubbornness caused him the exile. He was not afraid to show that Williams did in fact say he could be wrong on some of his accounts, that he wasn't perfect. Gaustad wrote on how Williams's feelings toward the government were sometimes flawed, that the government and church could not just be separated immediately like Williams pushed for, but that over time it could be