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 enable New Englanders to make
the intellectual transition that war with Britain required. During
the Revolution, anti-popery became less popular as the American
rebels relied on Catholic France for aid. By the end of the
revolutionary era, Catholics were extended legal toleration in all
of the New England states. The book's conclusion explores the
change in religious tolerance and the decline of anti-popery with a
study of New England's first Catholic parish.
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