History 231 Reading Guide
Discussion: The Organization of Society in the Middle Colonies
- Barry Levy, Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley (1988).
Questions:
- How does Levy's chronology�and his argument about phases�compare to those posed by Jack Greene and James Henretta?
- How does his description of northwestern England compare and contrast with Greene�s description of southeastern England?
- How does the balance of the influences of inheritance and experience work between Northwestern English (Wales/Cheshire) inheritance and the experience of Delaware Valley Quakers?
- Did the Welsh-Cheshire Quaker�s Pennsylvania make that colony a �middle� colony�or was it middle in the interaction between the Quakers, Anglicans, Scots-Irish and the Germans?
