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It seems as though he was one of the very few who considered the natives a "reachable" people. While others still looked upon them as savages, and to some, it seems, outside of God's grace, sub-human, Roger Williams gave them the respect and dignity of being human.
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If I'm not mistaken, Harvard graduated its first 'savage' sometime in 1665 (I don't recall the exact date.) Even a 'champion' of minority rights like Abe Lincoln would not share the dinner table with a colored man, but the Pigrims had them in their first seminary two hundred years before.
