Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father - Hardcover
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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 Lucas Mason-Brown cracked Williams' code after the marginalia languished for over a century in...
Linford D. Fisher is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.
J. Stanley Lemons is Emeritus Professor of History at Rhode Island College and Clerk and Historian of the First Baptist Church in America.
Lucas Mason-Brown is a graduate student in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin.
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