Citizens or Papists? : The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685–1821 / Jason K. Duncan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Jason K., Author.

Series:

Hudson Valley Heritage

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Based on careful work with rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti-Catholic feeling in pre-Revolutionary and early national periods. Colonial New York, despite its reputation for pluralism, tolerance, and diversity, was also marked by severe restrictions on religious and political liberty for Catholics. The logic of the American Revolution swept away the religious barriers, but Anti-Federalists in the 1780s enacted legislation preventing Catholics from holding office and nearly succeeded in denying them the franchise. The latter effort was blocked by the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, who saw such things as an impediment to a new, expansive nationalist politics. By the early years of the nineteenth century, Catholics gained the right to hold office due to their own efforts in concert with an urban-based branch of the Republicans, which included radical exiles from Europe. With the contributions of Catholics to the War of 1812 and the subsequent collapse of the Federalist Party, by 1820 Catholics had become a key part of the triumphant Republican coalition, which within a decade would become the new Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Jason K. Duncan is Assistant Professor of History at Aquinas College.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue ‘‘Disorder to None But Papists’’: Leisler’s Rebellion and the Making of Anti- Catholicism in Colonial New York

Chapter 1 ‘‘The Hand of Popery in this Hellish Conspiracy’’ The Legacy of Anti-Catholicism in Colonial New York

Chapter 2 ‘‘The Encouragement Popery Had Met With’’ Catholics and Religious Liberty in Revolutionary New York

Chapter 3 ‘‘No Foreign Ecclesiastical Authority’’ Catholics and Republican Citizenship

Chapter 4 ‘‘Federalists and Tories Carrying Everything With A High Hand’’ Catholics and the Politics of the 1790s

Chapter 5 ‘‘In All Countries Such Distinctions Are Odious: In None More So Than This’’ Political Equality in the Early Republic

Chapter 6 ‘‘A Middle Party?’’ Catholics and Republican Nationalism

Chapter 7 ‘‘The Great Chain of National Union’’ Catholics and the Republican Triumph

Conclusion ‘‘A Most Democratic and Republican Class’’

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9118-9

OCLC:

1350687779