In its early years, William Penn's "Peaceable Kingdom" was
anything but. Pennsylvania's governing institutions were faced with
daunting challenges: Native Americans proved far less docile than
Penn had hoped, the colony's non-English settlers were loath to
accept Quaker authority, and Friends themselves were divided by
grievous factional struggles. Yet out of this chaos emerged a
colony hailed by contemporary and modern observers alike as the
most liberal, tolerant, and harmonious in British America.In
"Friends and Strangers," John Smolenski argues that Pennsylvania's
early history can best be understood through the lens of
creolization--the process by which Old World habits, values, and
practices were transformed in a New World setting. Unable simply to
transplant English political and legal traditions across the
Atlantic, Quaker leaders gradually forged a creole civic culture
that secured Quaker authority in an increasingly diverse colony. By
mythologizing the colony's early settlement and casting Friends as
the ideal guardians of its uniquely free and peaceful society, they
succeeded in establishing a shared civic culture in which Quaker
dominance seemed natural and just.The first history of
Pennsylvania's founding in more than forty years, "Friends and
Strangers" offers a provocative new look at the transfer of English
culture to North America. Setting Pennsylvania in the context of
the broader Atlantic phenomenon of creolization, Smolenski's
account of the Quaker colony's origins reveals the vital role this
process played in creating early American society.
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