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Penn sought to create the Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania and did so by creating a liberal frame of government, attracting all sorts of people, including many Quakers, who made up the Holy Experiment.
The ” Holy Experiment ” was an attempt by the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, to establish a community for themselves and other persecuted religious …
In founding a new colony, Penn hoped for revenue to pay off debts and to create a “tolerance settlement” in America for persecuted Christians. He called this colony a “Holy Experiment” in religious tolerance and hoped it would be an …
"Holy Experiment" was William Penn's term for the ideal government he established for Pennsylvania in 1681, when he obtained the charter for that colony from King Charles II …
Primed with forward-looking ideas about equality and shared community resources from Thomas More’s Utopia, and inspired by the Quaker vision of George Fox and Thomas Loe, Penn was convinced that he could construct a …
Penn sought a colony in America—what he called a "holy experiment"—to protect himself and fellow Quakers from persecution. When Markham arrived on the western shore of the Delaware River, however, he …