American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0323 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Roger Williams and the *Key Into the Language*
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The idea
Roger Williams, a London merchant's son who had been Sir Edward Coke's stenographer and taken a Cambridge degree, was expelled from Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island. His Key Into the Language of America is a Narragansett phrasebook that argues for the people who speak it.
In practice
A dictionary that doubles as a defence.
Where people slip
Expulsion made him the colony's first dissenter.
Your place on the trail
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