Jews and Muslims in British colonial America : a genealogical history Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell, 1949-

Contributor:

Yates, Donald Neal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--History--17th century.

Jews.

Jews--United States--History--18th century.

Muslims--United States--History--17th century.

Muslims.

Muslims--United States--History--18th century.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 285 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012.

Summary:

"From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial US colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry" --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters

Sephardim in the new world

Virginia: first-and not so English-colony

Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors

New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish

Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends

Maryland: Catholic in her tastes

Huguenot South Carolina

Georgia, the last colony

Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

9780786464623 (softcover : alk. paper)

0786464623 (softcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

703210172