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Book Synopsis The Worlds of William Penn by : Andrew R. Murphy
Download or read book The Worlds of William Penn written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edited collection taking a wide-ranging look at William Penn's life and legacy, spanning everything from art history to literature, to history, to political theory, to American studies, to British studies."--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis William Penn: Political Writings by : Andrew R. Murphy
Download or read book William Penn: Political Writings written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Penn (1644-1718) – Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor – played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on both sides of the Atlantic for more than four decades. This volume presents, for the first time, a fully annotated scholarly edition of Penn's political writings over the course of his long public career, tracing his thinking from his early theorisation of religious toleration and liberty of conscience in England, as a leading member of the Society of Friends during the 1670s, to his colonial undertaking in Pennsylvania a decade later, his controversial role in the years leading up to the 1688 Revolution, and the ongoing consequences of that Revolution to his future prospects. Penn's political writings provide an illuminating window into the increasingly sophisticated and influential movement for liberty of conscience in the early modern world.
Download or read book William Penn written by Jane Budge and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Penn written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It may surprise many that William Penn, who founded one of the thirteen original American colonies, spent just four years on American soil. Even more surprising, though, is Penn's remarkable impact on the fundamental principles of religious freedom on both sides of the Atlantic, especially given his tumultuous life: from his youthful radicalism as leader of the Quaker movement to his role as governor and proprietor of a major American colony; from royal courtier to alleged traitor to the Crown. In the first major biography of this important transatlantic figure in more than forty years, Andrew R. Murphy takes readers through the defiant and complex life of a religious dissenter, political theorist, and social activist"--
Book Synopsis William Penn by : Barbara A. Somervill
Download or read book William Penn written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by : William Penn
Download or read book A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers written by William Penn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Penn (1644–1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed. In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his American land holdings to William Penn to satisfy a debt the king owed to Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. Penn immediately sailed to America and his first step on American soil took place in New Castle in 1682. On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new Proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. Afterwards, Penn journeyed up river and founded Philadelphia. However, Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favorably by the Dutch, Swedish, and English settlers in what is now Delaware. They had no "historical" allegiance to Pennsylvania, so they almost immediately began petitioning for their own Assembly. In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania were permitted to split off and become the new semi-autonomous colony of Lower Delaware. As the most prominent, prosperous and influential "city" in the new colony, New Castle became the capital. As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe ("European Dyet, Parliament or Estates") in his voluminous writings.
Book Synopsis William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' by : James Proud
Download or read book William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' written by James Proud and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Penn's life was, at its core, a search for peace. This study concentrates attention on his greatest effort to secure true peace for all--his undertaking to populate and cultivate the region of North America granted him by the English Crown in March 1681. Penn intended that Pennsylvania should be a haven for seekers of religious freedom and liberty of conscience, especially those who, for the sake of faith and principle, had suffered property forfeiture or bodily imprisonment during the persecutions of the English Civil War, Commonwealth, Protectorate, and Restoration. In commenting on how he had acquired Pennsylvania and what ends it might serve, Penn wrote to William Harrison: For my country, [I eyed] the Lord in the obtaining of it; and more was I drawn inward to look to Him, and to o[we it] to His hand and power, than to any ot[her way]. I have so obtained it and desire that I may not be unworthy of His love, but do that which may answer yet His kind providence and serve His Truth and people; that an example may be set up to the nations. There may be room there, though not here, for such a holy experiment This book traces the historical progress of the foremost themes of the holy experiment from 1681, when Penn wrote the above letter to Harrison. These themes were most fully realized by the 1750s, but the holy experiment continued until 1781, when the experiment was finally laid down. The great themes of the experiment, in addition to the founding principles of peace grounded in religious freedom and liberty of conscience, were public education, preserving friendship with the Native Americans, and abolishing the evil of slavery. By the end of the experiment in 1781, both successes and failures had been realized, successes and failures that continue to underlie the society America has become since those days of its birthing at Philadelphia when the founding fathers gave order to the United States. James Proud is an attorney, now retired, and a priest of the Episcopal Church. Proud is the editor of John Woolman and the A airs of Truth, published by Inner Light Books in 2010.
Book Synopsis Camp William Penn by : Donald Scott, Sr.
Download or read book Camp William Penn written by Donald Scott, Sr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp William Penn, established in 1863, was the largest federal facility to train black Northern-based soldiers during the Civil War and is steeped in Civil War history. Almost 11,000 troops and officers trained at the sprawling facility outside of Philadelphia and a special officersAa' training school in the city. The camp, backed by the Union League of Philadelphia, was located near the home of antislavery abolitionist Lucretia Mott. The area, today known as Cheltenham TownshipAa's LaMott, was also instrumental in the Underground Railroad, with such great abolitionists as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass addressing the troops. The soldiers were a part of Abraham LincolnAa's Bureau of United States Colored Troops, and several earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroics during battle. The vintage photographs in Camp William Penn were obtained from government agencies, universities, historical organizations, and the personal collections of soldiersAa' descendants.
Book Synopsis William Penn and the Quaker Legacy by : John Moretta
Download or read book William Penn and the Quaker Legacy written by John Moretta and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book features: the integration of English history with Penn's personal struggles and accomplishments (and shows how specific events affected Penn and the Quakers); thorough coverage of the Quaker faith provides insight into Penn's motivations and actions; chapter-ending summaries provide a synopsis of important events in Penn's life and chart Penn's evolution from peaceful Quaker to profit-making colonizer; and study and discussion questions at the end of the book help students check their reading and comprehension. These questions may also be used to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania: William Penn and the City of Brotherly Love by : Bonnie Hinman
Download or read book Pennsylvania: William Penn and the City of Brotherly Love written by Bonnie Hinman and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Charles II of England gave Pennsylvania to Quaker William Penn in repayment for a loan that Penn’s father had made to the king. The king probably thought he was accomplishing more than just paying a debt when he made the land grant. It was a way to get rid of some Quakers, whom he considered troublesome. Quakers did flock to Pennsylvania to settle, but so did people from many other religious groups. All faiths were welcome in Penn’s colony. The new city of Philadelphia prospered. Settlers fanned out to the west to build farms and towns. They shipped their products to Philadelphia and England. By the time of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania was considered the heart of the colonies. Philadelphia hosted the First and Second Continental Congresses, where the Declaration of Independence was crafted. And from the Pennsylvania State House, the Liberty Bell rang out the news of declared independence.
Book Synopsis William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania by : Jean R. Soderlund
Download or read book William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania written by Jean R. Soderlund and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and women could worship as they pleased, where men could participate fully in their government. Such a land, Penn believed, would indeed be blessed. Beginning with his petition to the king in May 1680 and ending with his departure to England in August 1684, this book contains the most important documents describing the founding of Pennsylvania. The letters, orders, petitions, charters, laws, pamphlets, maps, constitutional drafts, legislative journals, newspaper articles, memoranda, deeds, and other business records assembled here include Penn's own explanations of his desire to found a Quaker colony, his invitation to settlers, and his design for government.
Book Synopsis No Cross, No Crown by : William Penn
Download or read book No Cross, No Crown written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World of William Penn by : Richard S. Dunn
Download or read book The World of William Penn written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.
Download or read book William Penn written by Ryan Jacobson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Quaker leader William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, whose ideas about government influenced the U.S. Constitution. Written in graphic-novel format.
Book Synopsis Some Fruits of Solitude by : William Penn
Download or read book Some Fruits of Solitude written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William Penn by : Bernadette L. Baczynski
Download or read book William Penn written by Bernadette L. Baczynski and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the religious leader and founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, whose Quaker beliefs helped him form peaceful relationships with the American Indians and lay the foundation of religious freedom in America.
Book Synopsis The Papers of William Penn, Volume 2 by : Richard S. Dunn
Download or read book The Papers of William Penn, Volume 2 written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.
