1776 WILLIAM PENN. William Penn's Anti-War Manifesto to Defend Quaker's Against American Revolutionaries. Calvinism The Little Coal-Picker

The Little Coal-Picker

When it came out

and those who are there Unjustly

Beyond its immediate consequences

1776 WILLIAM PENN. William Penn's Anti-War Manifesto to Defend Quaker's Against American Revolutionaries. Calvinism The Little Coal-PickerVery scarce 1776 imprint of William Penn's 1678 Epistle, issued to defend and sustain the Philadelphia Quakers. Originally written during a period of severe repression of nonconformists in England, when Quakers faced imprisonment, property seizure, and social ostracism, his call to resist evil through spiritual rather than physical means was forged under genuine persecution. This lent the letter deep moral authority. By the late 18th century, American