dwight
Joined: May 2007
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Oct 09, 2009 05:52
"The Wordy Shipmates," a recent (2008) book by Sarah Vowell added a lot to my lay knowledge of Winthrop-Williams-Cotton-Hutchinson. Her style is often irritatingly breezy, but she settles down (or I got used to the style) and I learned a lot. It's not as if Roger Williams was consistently the voice of reason. He was a quirky, extremist, himself in so many ways, but did come down on the side we know hold to be right on the tolerance and Native-American issues.
As I recall, he got caught up completely in King Phillip's War, anyway, and after losing the Great Swamp Fight, vengeful Narragansetts burned much of Rhode Island.
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