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Penn'S Treaty With The Indians

Penn'S Treaty With The Indians

Shearer Keyser, Charles

Paperback

Native American HistoryGeneral World HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 9354486916
ISBN13: 9789354486913
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Where did the American experiment in fair dealing with indigenous peoples briefly burn its brightest? For Charles Shearer Keyser, the answer lies beneath the great elm at Shackamaxon, where William Penn met the Lenape. Peace had a birthplace here. In Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a classic history book in the tradition of colonial American history, Keyser revisits that encounter and its legacy, sifting surviving records and traditions to ask what truly happened between William Penn and natives on the banks of the Delaware. The result is a vivid study of 17th century Pennsylvania, exploring how Quaker principles, diplomacy and mutual obligation shaped Native American treaties, Quaker Indian relations and the distinctive ethos of the early Philadelphia colonial era. Written in the late nineteenth century, this focused Pennsylvania historical monograph also serves as an accessible William Penn biography in miniature, tracing his ideals, his negotiations and the myths that grew around him. Today it stands as an evocative window into how nineteenth-century scholarship interpreted Penn's experiment in just colonisation. Students of colonial history, homeschool American history families and general readers encounter both a human story and a careful assessment of sources, while collectors of Quaker history books gain a key piece in understanding how peaceable colonisation was imagined, remembered and contested. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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