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

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• VerfasserIn: Duncan, Jason K.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Hudson Valley Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823291182; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823291182
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jason K. Duncan.

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.