Episode 49 - Tribal Diplomacy

A History of the United States

Jamie Redfern

Higher Education, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 519 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week we look back to Rhode Island and recount the circumstances surrounding its foundation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a history of the United States. Episode 49.
0:22.7	Tribal Diplomacy.
0:25.0	Remember that this is a listener-supported podcast.
0:28.6	If you enjoy the show, then please consider signing up for membership.
0:32.8	It costs $4.99 per month and gives you access to exclusive premium episodes. Just go to the website,
0:42.2	the history ofpodcast.com, and click on the PayPal subscription button. In our last episode,
0:49.5	we covered the United Colonies of New England, as they made their way through the nullification controversy,
0:56.7	faced off against the Dutch and Indians, and into the 1660s.
1:01.8	Today, we turn to the New England colony that was left out of the Puritan League.
1:08.0	Rhode Island.
1:09.6	We last covered Rhode Island way back in episode 35, so perhaps a brief
1:15.6	refresher is in order. In 1636, Roger Williams fled from the other colonies of New
1:24.3	England to Narraganset Bay, where he founded Providence Plantation.
1:30.2	Williams had several major objections to the other colonies, which he intended to fix.
1:37.6	He objected to the way Puritanism had infested the governments of New England.
1:43.8	Religion was a private matter and had nothing to do with the state.
1:49.5	He also disapproved of the oligarchical nature of the New England governments,
1:55.2	particularly Massachusetts.
1:57.5	The pastors had too much power.
2:00.2	In Providence Plantation, there be religious freedom, and it would be
2:04.4	democratic. There is very little actual governance in the area of Rhode Island, but when it was time for
2:11.8	government, it would be done by the shareholders in the colony, in other words, the landed men.
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