A Mixed Multitude: The Struggle for Toleration in Colonial Pennsylvania (The American Social Experience)

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Religious and national diversity characterized the settlements of the Delaware Valley almost from the first arrival of Europeans, and The us’s first pluralistic society evolved from this colony established by William Penn at the western shore of the Delaware River in 1681.

Penn himself set forth a new, ideological basis for pluralism and tolerance, and this transformed a tentative, pragmatic pattern of relative harmony and tolerance into official policy. The English culture transplanted to Pennsylvania used to be itself fragmented. Quakers and Anglican, as an example, had very different religious, social, and cultural values. Colonists from different parts of the British Isles—the Welsh, the Scots, and the Scotch-Irish—did not share common experiences or cultures. The “Swedes” were both Swedish and Finnish in origins and culture and, even as incessantly designated “Germans” or “Palatines” by English-speaking Pennsylvanians, emigrants from the Rhineland spoke different dialects, practiced all kinds of religious observances, and had little in common historically or culturally.

Penn’s ideals, ideas and policies set in motion forces that had significant effects at the development of this extremely heterogenous colony. This book explores the ways through which the implications of Penn’s ideals were steadily worked out in Pennsylvania and how a stable and in most cases tolerant society used to be created.

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