Promised Land: Penn's Holy Experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763

Promised Land: Penn's Holy Experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763
ISBN-10
0934223777
ISBN-13
9780934223775
Series
Promised Land
Category
History
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Lehigh University Press
Author
Steven Craig Harper

Description

Focusing on the Walking Purchase as the central event in the long process of dispossessing Delawares both geographically and ethnically, Steven Harper observes the transformation of a fragile, if generally peaceful middle ground, habitable by Delawares and English on negotiable terms, to an English colony determined to possess a boundless landscape by fraud and force.

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