Philadelphia Quakers: A Brief History

by William C. Kashatus

Philadelphia Quakers: A Brief History is a concise but insightful account of the Religious Society of Friends, beginning with their founding in mid-seventeenth-century England. Persecuted for his non-conformist beliefs, William Penn, in 1682, established a refuge for Quakers in his New World colony of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia became the capital city of Penn's utopian colony dedicated to the ideals of religious toleration, participatory government,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634994981
• ISBN13: 9781634994989
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: America Through Time
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"