iGraduate level history

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?