Roger Williams' haven of religious liberty, on land granted by the Narragansett.
Governed under its 1663 charter until it renounced the Crown on 4 May 1776.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Rhode Island — the shape you scrub through changes in 1636 · 1676 · 1692 · 1713 · 1750.
Covers Roger Williams and the dissenter founding of Rhode Island within New England (broad regional context).
Rhode Island's religious-liberty experiment in the wider colonial story (broad context).
Foundational primary source by the founder of Rhode Island — simultaneously a vocabulary of Algonquian language and an ethnographic account of the Narragansett, on whose land Williams established Providence. Essential primary source for the colony.