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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn

Wasn’t Penn a Quaker who lived peacefully with native Americans? And quakers were antislavery. In fact, Pennsylvania was a haven for freed slaves thanks to the Underground Railroad essentially run by quakers. [/quote]

I'm sure of you talked to the native Americans who experienced white settlers encroaching on their land, they would have a different story. For instance, they might say that they were forced to live peacefully next to their captors and oppressors.:. But sure let's Romanticize history. [/quote]

Eh, I’m not romanticizing. Colonizers colonize. That’s been the case since the dawn of time. But Penn wasn’t rounding up native Americans and marching them west or killing them.[/quote]
NP.  Colonizers colonize.  How astute you are.  He was also an enslaver but I guess that is okay for you.  Enslavers enslave, right?[/quote]

It's OK for anyone with the IQ not to judge 18th century people by the standards and morals of the 21st century -- especially since slavery existed for all recorded history (and still does in Africa and elsewhere)...[/quote]

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