[PDF.73oh] Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father

Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father

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 | #2286947 in Books |  2014-07-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 218 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A Remarkable Scholarly Achievement|By Alan E. Johnson|For centuries, a shorthand essay of Roger Williams (ca. 1603-83), written sometime during the last few years of his life, was left undeciphered and was accordingly unavailable to historians. In a remarkable scholarly achievement, a team of professors and students recently decoded much of this essay (hereafter referred to as| |"Decoding Roger Williams revels in the ingenuity of American historical scholarship and renews Williams' fame as early New England's most intriguing and challenging figure."
--Jon Butler, Yale University

"A gem of a bo

Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300 years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable . . .

. . . until now.

A team of Brown University undergraduates led by Lucas Mason-Brown cracked Williams' code after the marginalia languished for over a century in the archives of the John Carter Brown Library. At ...

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