The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment
by
Kevin Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with...