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

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 a team of Brown University undergraduates led by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fisher, Linford D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waco : Baylor University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 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 Nor.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (212 pages).
ISBN:9781481301060