Pub Date: February 18, 2002
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2001007283
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 09 to 12
Physical Info: 0.53" H x 7.82" L x 5.36" W ( 0.38 lbs) 199 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography and Autobiography | Historical | History | United States Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
Series: Heroes of History
Description: With the favor William's father enjoyed in Britain's royal court, all William had to do was show himself to be a faithful royalist, and wealth and privilege would be his. Instead he chose to follow his conscience--to expulsion from university, disinheritance, imprisonment, and the threat of death.
In a world where freedoms were subject to the whims of rulers, William Penn worked passionately for religious tolerance. When this Quaker reformer secured a land grant in America, he laid for Pennsylvania a foundation of liberty, justice, fairness, and tolerance that would later guide the drafting of the Constitution of the United States (1644-1718).