The Quaker Colonies

At Oxford, William Penn is meant to be learning how to win favor at Court. Instead, the seventeen-year-old slips away to hear the outlawed Quakers—and catches a vision of a home for them in the forests of the Delaware.

Sydney George Fisher’s chronicle begins amid the religious upheavals of seventeenth-century England, where Quakers face fines, prison, and persecution on both sides of the Atlantic. Penn’s dream is not simply to find refuge, but to secure land and the power to govern it—a daunting ambition for a sect hunted by the Crown. Years later, a debt owed to Penn’s father puts an unexpected possibility before him: might the King pay in American wilderness rather than money? Can a persecuted faith claim a colony of its own?

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