Promised Land : Penn's Holy Experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600D1763

Focusing on the Walking Purchase as the central event in the long process of dispossessing Delaware both geographically and ethnically, Steven C.

Harper observes the transformation of a fragile, if generally peaceful, middle ground, habitable by Delaware and English on negotiable terms, to an English colony determined to possess a boundless landscape by fraud and force.