History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0457 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pennsylvania and the Quakers
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The idea
Pennsylvania was created in sixteen eighty-one and granted to William Penn to settle royal debts owed his father. Quakers held that everyone had an inner light inside them, a spark of divinity.
In practice
Quakers addressing all others as equals, using thee and thou rather than your lordship.
Where people slip
Massachusetts executed several early Quakers who went to proselytise there.
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