Freedom Seeker
Author | : Gwenyth Swain |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2003-08-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781575057163 |
ISBN-13 | : 1575057166 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Download or read book Freedom Seeker written by Gwenyth Swain and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a wealthy, repected admiral, William Penn did what was forbidden in seventeenth-century England--he openly practiced the Quaker religion. Penn dreamed of a place with freedom of religion. He asked for land in the New World and was given a colony called Pennsylvania. His success in establishing a new and just government there later became the blueprint for thirteen newly independent colonies.