Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism

by Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather

Book Overview

Quakers were one of the early settler colonist groups to invade northeastern North America. William Penn set out to develop a "Holy Experiment," or utopian colony, in what is now Pennsylvania. Here, he thought, his settler colonists would live in harmony with the Indigenous Lenape and other settler colonists.

Centering on the relationship between Quaker colonists and the Lenape people, Finding Right Relations explores the contradictory position...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816550298
• ISBN13: 9780816550296
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"