Decoding Roger Williams - 9781481301046

Decoding Roger WilliamsThe Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father\nAuthor(s): Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, Lucas Mason-Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481301046, 978-1481301046\nSynopsis\nNear 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...\n\n...until 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 the time of Williams' writing, a trans-Atlantic debate on infant versus believer's baptism had taken shape that included London Baptist minister John Norcott and the famous Puritan \""\""Apostle to the Indians,\""\"" John Eliot. Amazingly, Williams' code co.