A Lively Experiment
A Multireligious Historical Overview of Rhode Island
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| In 1663, Williams was granted a charter for his colony from England's King Charles I, because:
"in their humble address, they have freely declared, that it is much on their hearts . . . to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained . . . with full liberty in religious concernments." That passage is engraved on the front of Rhode Island's State Capitol Building. The State soon became a haven for other freethinkers including Anne Hutchinson—the Massachusetts religious dissident who, with her followers, founded a settlement at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1638. |
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