The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… (eds.), Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), p. 345-83. 2 . E. Digby Baltzell, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979). William Penn, a wealthy Quaker dissident, gained a royal charter in 1681 for a vast territory across what … Quakers’ enterprising industry brought wealth to many, which often led to relaxing of strict personal standards. Still, pressures of Quaker morality left Philadelphia with ‘little gaiety and less elegance’. 3 3 . Carl and Jessica …
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