{"product_id":"a-lenape-among-the-quakers-dawn-g-marsh-9780803275201","title":"A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman's life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.\"\u003c\/b\u003e ―Thomas Britten, \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency--a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn's \"peaceable kingdom\" preserved. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Lenape among the Quakers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e reconstructs Freeman's history, from the days of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The story that emerges is one of persistence and resilience, as \"Indian Hannah\" negotiates life with the Quaker neighbors who employ her, entrust their children to her, seek out her healing skills, and, when she is weakened by sickness and age, care for her. Yet these are the same neighbors whose families then dispossess her own.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating in its own right, Freeman's life is also remarkable as a unique account of a Native American woman in a colonial community during a time of dramatic transformation and upheaval. In particular, it expands our understanding of colonial history and the Native experience that history often renders silent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dawn G. Marsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080327520X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803275201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Dawn G. Marsh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048500687103,"sku":"9780803275201","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5f6b0e6-b73e-4fba-b8b1-b8a40d185d4e.jpg?v=1684996128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-lenape-among-the-quakers-dawn-g-marsh-9780803275201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}