Pennsylvania in the South

I'm not sure if this has been asked before. If it has, I'd appreciate any links to previous discussions.

Scenario: William Penn is given his grant in 1680 but it's for land south of the recently established Carolina colony, roughly analogous to OTL Georgia, with *Philadelphia roughly where OTL Savannah is.

Could this colony survive or would the Spanish just burn it to the ground?

Assuming the Spanish stay busy in St. Augustine and points south, would *Pennsylvania flourish?

Could the Quakers resist the draw of slave labour and cash crops like rice, tobacco, cotton etc?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts,

David
 
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Could the Quakers resist the draw of slave labour and cash crops like rice, tobacco, cotton etc?

The anti slavery movement came to the Society of Friends much later than the Pennsylvania charter, roughly a century later. Until then Quakers were no more or no less involved in slavery than any other English group. So, plantations style slavery would certainly develop in Tidewater Pennsylvania. How that might be affected when the question of the morality of slavery came is a difficult question. Note that while Pennsylvania was the pre 19th Century center of Quakers in North America large groups displaced westwards & as fast as the frontier moved. So, the influence of slaveholding Quakers may not be any greater than OTL.

Economicaly Quakers will be influenced by southern circumstances, but their deeper pockets and English connections might bring larger industrial development to Pennsylvania South as in OTL.

Religious freedom in Pennsylvania brought other distinct groups such as the Amish & Mennonites. This leads to a colony & later a state that is unlike the other southern states of OTL in cultural, religious, & economic factors. This combined with the slavery question leads to a possibility Pennsylvania South does not secede from the Union.
 
I suspect money would trump idealism, and Pennsylvania Quakers would remain much more pro-slavery than OTL. More capital would probably just mean more plantations; it was always a much more reliable means of earning a fortune than industry, and Georgia is hot and humid (not to mention malarial in those days) even outdoors in the summer.

Another thing to note: if there isn't a competing colony in the same area, then Maryland may keep at least some of the territory it lost to Pennsylvania OTL (possibly including modern Philadelphia and Delaware, depending on what happens to James II).
 
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