Has to be 650 or more words, with intext cites.
In the required reading for this week, Allen notes
that, “Resettlement in [Pennsylvania] did not, of
course, mean [Quaker] freedom from disease,
inequality, or persecution. During Penn’s second visit
to the colony in 1700, he discovered that there had
been an outbreak of yellow fever, which had resulted
in a large number of deaths. At the same time, Penn
spoke out against slave holding. In 1704, John
Kelsall had observed in his diary that the settlers in
Virginia were not well disposed towards the Friends
at Philadelphia, and the London Yearly Meeting had
to send some literature to members to combat the
verbal onslaughts. In a letter in October 1706 to
Kelsall, Rowland Ellis informed him that the non-
Quaker deputy-governor, John Evans, had seized
upon a false rumour of an imminent French invasion
of Pennsylvania. According to Ellis, ‘a more
unsuitable man to govern a colony of Quakers’ could
not be found. It seems clear that Evans was
attempting to test the Quaker pacifist credentials by
forcing them to take military action in order to defend
themselves.” Against this challenging backdrop, why
do you think the Quaker settlement in Pennsylvania
endured?
