God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
Written by James A. Warren
Narrated by Bob Souer
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As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts.
In God, War, and Providence James A. Warren tells the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams's Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment.
James A. Warren
James A. Warren is a historian and foreign policy analyst. A regular contributor to The Daily Beast, he is the author of God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England; American Spartans: The US Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq; and The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History (with Major General Fred Haynes, USMC-RET), among other books. For many years, Warren was an acquisitions editor at Columbia University Press, and more recently a visiting scholar in American Studies at Brown University. He lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Warren provides us with an intriguing, factual account of Roger Williams work with the Narragansett Indians to achieve freedom of conscience and against Puritan aggression to aggrandize their personal wealth at the expense of the American Indians.Warren quotes Harvard historian, Perry Miller, saying, "for Williams 'the Christian predicament –– which was also the glory of Christianity –– was to hold what the believer conceives to be truth with fierce tenacity, yet never attempting to impose that truth upon the minds pr souls of men,'" especially by coercion, force, and or threats to life.Williams saw the "dire implications of... mistakes[ing] their own vision of truth and the good society for God's" (p.253).And engaging and eye-opening read.