This book explores the complex relationship between anti-Catholicism, or anti-popery to use the contemporary term, and the American Revolution in New England. Anti-Catholicism was among the most common themes in colonial New England culture. Nonetheless, New Englanders entered into an alliance with French Catholics against Protestant Britons during the American Revolution. As New Englanders traditionally associated Catholicism with tyranny and oppression, they were able to extend these feelings to the popish British upon the passage of the Quebec Act. As a consequence, anti-popery helped...
This book explores the complex relationship between anti-Catholicism, or anti-popery to use the contemporary term, and the American Revolution in N...
Covering the experiences of various groups (including women, native Americans and African Americans), 'Revolutionary America, 1763-1815' explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815. This sourcebook provides a crucial collection of documents from the Revolutionary period.
Covering the experiences of various groups (including women, native Americans and African Americans), 'Revolutionary America, 1763-1815' explains the ...
