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What Baptists Have Done Across American History
A concise survey highlighting Baptists as early advocates of civil and religious liberty in Rhode Island, influence on the First Amendment, and long support of education. It credits Baptists with founding the first American public school system, Harvard’s first president, Rhode Island’s Brown University, and Vassar College, plus pioneering missions and Bible societies and Sunday school movements led by Baptist figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
United
John Clarke
America
Henry Dunster
Harvard University
Thomas Hollis
Hollis
Harvard
United States
Brown University
Middle States
Joseph Hughes
First Bible Societies
B. F. Jacobs
Chicago
Marshall A. Hudson
Syracuse
N. Y