Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Rhode island was the very first place that true religious tolerance was practiced according to my American History Book!
Religious tolerance
RHODE ISLAND first promoted religious tolerance under the leadership of Baptist minister Roger Williams. He believed that conviction should be the result of the working of the Holy Spirit and not of law or other forms of coercion.
Quakers
Gabriel Prosser was an African slave who started a slave revolt. He did have religious ties though it is not reported what religion he practiced in America.
Religious/political freedom/tolerance :D APUSH
Religious tolerance has proven to be difficult and illusive because Christian religious leaders are strongly opposed to competing religions encroaching upon their political and economic supremacy.
The majority of colonists who came to America for religious freedom. Most of the Plymouth colonists practiced the Quaker religion.
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