Experts discuss how Roger Williams, a 17th century Puritan, and his revolutionary ideas of "soul liberty" greatly influenced the course of the idea of religious freedom in the United States, and can inform us today.
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Puritan Roger Williams, a separatist, establishes the state of Rhode Island after leaving Massachusetts.
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