Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860

@s_r_tarnmoor @Benevolentrwds @PoetRegressive Sure, it's not so much a contradiction as a development; in Congress anti-Catholicism had practically died by July 1776 due to French and Canadian influence: https://t.co/uOQmqhALze https://t.co/WRcgAO1oNP

@rodinrodin7 Indeed, and actual contact with the French seems to have had a smothering effect on American Anti-Popery: https://t.co/uXVpjnN99d https://t.co/6kf8YSb01Q