Welsh Quaker Emigrants and Colonial Pennsylvania - Transatlantic Connections

Exploring the emigration to colonial Pennsylvania of Welsh members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), this book appraises their experiences during a period of unparalleled change. It charts their patterns of settlement, considers the challenges they encountered as they adapted to the complexities of multi-ethnic Pennsylvanian life, and brings fresh insights into their religious ethos, the dynamics of Quaker family and community life. Above all, it provides an understanding of the experiences of these emigrants and their relationship with the wider movement in Britain, and situates this in the broader context of early-modern emigration to the American colonies.

About the author

Dr Richard C. Allen. BA (Hons); PhD; FRHS., Reader in Early Modern Cultural History at the University of South Wales, UK. Author of Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Resistance to Respectability (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Richard C. Allen, Allen Richard C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2017, delayed
• EAN: 9781472455888
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5588-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Wales, European History, Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, maritime history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)