Abstract
This article sets out to study a book written by an English Puritan-dissident colonist named Roger Williams. His book, A Key into the Language of America, was published in London in 1643. It contains a great deal of linguistic and ethnological information about the Narragansetts (Rhode Island, New England). The author draws from his extensive knowledge of Narragansett society — which he considers to be of «superior civility», to construct a critique of English society of the period. In this respect he was a forerunner of those whose ideas led, at the end of the 18th century, to the creation of the United States of America.
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