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How Religious Beliefs Affected Colonial Social Structure In America

Pages: 6 (1917 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:51981649

… community was always still rather small in the colony as the number of Catholic settlers was actually fewer than the number of Protestant indentured servants (Laux). Maryland was founded to give Catholics persecuted under the Protestant Crown in England a place to go. Lord Baltimore was its governor … given positions of authority in society. The structure of the local society was set up so that Catholics were land owners and their servants were Protestants. More and more Protestant settlers came to Baltimore, whose Catholic leaders practiced religious liberty under the Toleration Act—so there was no ……

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Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1974.

Graham, Michael. "Posish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689." The Catholic historical review 79.2 (1993): 197-216.

Holton, W. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Laux, John. Church History. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1933.

Melville, Herman. Clarel.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005201424&view=1up&seq=9 

Milder, R. Herman Melville. New York: Columbia University Press,1988.

Pyle, Ralph E., and James D. Davidson. "The origins of religious stratification in colonial America." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42.1 (2003): 57-75.

 

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