ISBN: 1931357293

William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this P… Altro …

William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, withdisastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violence during the French and Indian War. In1763, a group of frontier settlers known as the Paxton Boys exterminated the last twenty Conestogas, descendants of Indians who had lived peacefully since the 1690s on land donated by William Penn near Lancaster. Invoking the principle of "right of conquest," the Paxton Boys claimed after themassacres that the Conestogas' land was rightfully theirs. They set out for Philadelphia, threatening to sack the city unless their grievances were met. A delegation led by Benjamin Franklin met them and what followed was a war of words, with Quakers doing battle against Anglican and Presbyterianchampions of the Paxton Boys. The killers were never prosecuted and the Pennsylvania frontier descended into anarchy in the late 1760s, with Indians the principal victims. The new order heralded by the Conestoga massacres was consummated during the American Revolution with t poetry Books, Sheep Meadow Press, The<

2005, ISBN: 9781931357296

Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Taschenbuch, 160 Seiten, Publiziert: 2005-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.63 kg, US-amerikanische Lyrik, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktio… Altro …

Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Taschenbuch, 160 Seiten, Publiziert: 2005-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.63 kg, US-amerikanische Lyrik, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Sheep Meadow Press,U.S., 2005<

2006, ISBN: 1931357293

[EAN: 9781931357296], Gebraucht, [PU: Sheep Meadow], Poetry|General, Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside.