Analysis Of Merritt's Introduction To At The Crossroads '
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In “Introduction to At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier,” Merritt writes about the Indians and the white settlers around 1755 went from being peaceful of each other to fighting and killing each other. The document is a secondary source, and Merritt, a historian, is directing her work towards scholars of early American history and students. Merritt discusses how prior to the 1750s, the natives and the settlers traded, coexisted, and were tolerant of each other. William Penn, the Quaker who founded Pennsylvania was credited with promoting harmony between the two communities. Around that time, the Indians and white settlers both worked in unison to diminish the authority of the colonial authorities and of the Six