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This episode of Historical Context explores thechaotic final decade of the seventeenth century in Pennsylvania, revealing how royal military governor Benjamin Fletcher clashed with pacifist Quakers, how amassive influx of pirates threatened to ruin the colony, and how William Penn ultimately returned from a fifteen-year absence to officially dismantle his original 1683 Frame of Government.
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