Quaker colonies: Penn’s “Holy Experiment“

This video concerns William Penn and origins of Pennsylvania. Penn, the son of an admiral, converted to Quakerism circa 1660. As Quakers were unwelcome in Restoration England, Penn began planning a “Holy Experiment“ in America. Because of his elite connections, and because such a colony served Charles II’s interests, he was able to secure a charter. For my free annotated and illustrated list of works on Jacobitism: