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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
By Marsh, Dawn G.
- ISBN
- 9780803248403
- Publisher
- Univ. of Nebraska
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Reviewed on April 1, 2014 | Social Sciences
Hannah Freeman (1730–1802) is remembered as "the last of the Lenni-Lenape Indians in Chester County," PA. In her lifetime, the Lenni-Lenape, also known as the Delaware, were gradually dispossessed of their country through crooked land deals and warfare. Unlike most of her people, Freeman opted to remain in Pennsylvania rather than migrate west, adapting to living among the state's Quakers while also staying true to her own culture. Marsh (history, Purdue Univ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
