[PDF] William Penn eBook

Author : Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190234245

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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.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1512801968

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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.

Author : Ryan Jacobson
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736896651

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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.

Author : Gwenyth Swain
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575057166

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The son of a wealthy, repected admiral, William Penn did what was forbidden in seventeenth-century England--he openly practiced the Quaker religion. Penn dreamed of a place with freedom of religion. He asked for land in the New World and was given a colony called Pennsylvania. His success in establishing a new and just government there later became the blueprint for thirteen newly independent colonies.

Author : William Penn
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN :

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William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the seventeenth century and as a core element of the classical liberal tradition in general. This volume illuminates the origins and development of Penn's thought by presenting, for the first time, complete and annotated texts of all his important political works. His thought has relevance not only for scholars of English political and religious history, but also for those who are interested in the foundations of American religious liberty, political development, and colonial history. His social status, indefatigable energy for publication, and command of biblical and historical sources give Penn's political writings a twofold significance: as a window on toleration and liberty of conscience, perhaps the most vexing issue of Restoration politics; and as part of a broader current of thought that would influence political thought and practice in the colonies as well as in the mother country.

Author : Donald Scott, Sr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738557359

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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.

Author : Steven Kroll
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823414390

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A biography of William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania, who struggled throughout his life for the freedom to practice his religion.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 151282142X

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This volume, covering the years 1680 to 1684, documents the founding of Pennsylvania.