Freedom Seeker A Story about William Penn |
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| Author:
| Swain, Gwenyth |
| Series title: | Creative Minds Biography Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-28951-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Lerner Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $33.90 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.