In many ways, religion was the United States' first
prejudice--both an early source of bigotry and the object of the
first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than
two centuries across colonial British America and the United
States, "The First Prejudice" offers a groundbreaking exploration
of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve
essays in this volume were composed by leading historians with an
eye to the larger significance of religious tolerance and
intolerance. Individual chapters examine the prosecution of
religious crimes, the biblical sources of tolerance and
intolerance, the British imperial context of toleration, the bounds
of Native American spiritual independence, the nuances of
anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, the resilience of African
American faiths, and the challenges confronted by skeptics and
freethinkers."The First Prejudice" presents a revealing portrait of
the rhetoric, regulations, and customs that shaped the
relationships between people of different faiths in seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century America. It relates changes in law and
language to the lived experience of religious conflict and
religious cooperation, highlighting the crucial ways in which they
molded U.S. culture and politics. By incorporating a broad range of
groups and religious differences in its accounts of tolerance and
intolerance, "The First Prejudice" opens a significant new vista on
the understanding of America's long experience with diversity.
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