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Freedom Seeker: A Story About William Penn (Creative Minds Biography)
Freedom Seeker A Story About William Penn - Creative Minds Biography Author:Gwenyth Swain, Lisa Harvey (Illustrator) The son of a wealthy, respected 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 ... more »became the blueprint for thirteen newly independent colonies.« less