John Clarke's World

John Clarke, one of the founders of Rhode Island, lived in a world very different from ours, a world of wonders, of religious explanations for natural and social events, of new beginnings and profound dislocation in his native country.  He remains a more remote figure than Roger Williams or Samuel Gorton.  Nonetheless, John Clarke had family and wives, friends and enemies, as well as communities of faith in America and in England.  This book explores these connections as well as the settings of John Clarke's life:  the village in which he grew up, the towns he helped to found in Rhode Island, and the vast metropolis of London in which he won the Rhode Island Charter of 1663.  Against the passionate opposition of Rhode Island's neighbors, John Clarke's championship of toleration of religion helped to make it one of America's core principles.

Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, FASG and Judith Crandall Harbold

2018, 7" x 10", Cloth, index, 460 pp.

ISBN:  9780982766545

101-B6654