Weybosset Bridge in Providence Plantations, 1700-1790. Being an Account of a Quest for Liberty, with Portraits of Many Saints and Sinners, and a Special Study of the Rev'd Joseph Snow, jun'r. by Wilson, Arthur E. / [Snow, Joseph, Jr.]

Pilgrim Press, Boston [1947]. Hard Cover. xi, 275 p. end-paper map, index, 22 cm. 'The roots of the New World concept of freedom lie deep in the soil of American Protestantism wherever it was a protest movement. …This book is a chronicle of the religious life of Providence Plantations during the years 1700-1790. The history of these years up Narragansett Bay relates the conscious and unconscious forming of a pattern of freedom which eventually would become the foundation stone of American democracy. Unique Rhode Island furnishes the smallest and clearest test tube for the study of the forces which ultimately gave birth to the American concept of liberty.' Stock# 25,191x. Vg/ dj good; Another 2 copies, vg, green cloth covers; spine a bit faded/ no dj. Another copy. Ex-lib./ no dj.