The Society of Friends is well known as having succeeded in living in peace with the Indians in the early settlement of Pennsylvania, while their white neighbors of other sects in other sections were constantly embroiled.
Grant highlights the Society of Friends' successful peaceful coexistence with Native Americans in early Pennsylvania.
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