Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.

"The hand of popery in this hellish conspiracy" : the legacy of Anti-Catholicism in Colonial New York -- "The encouragement popery had met with" : Catholics and religious liberty in Revolutionary New York -- "No foreign ecclesiastical authority" : Catholics and Republican citizenship -- "Federalists and tories carrying everything with a high hand" : Catholics and the politics of the 1790s -- "In all countries such distinctions are odious : in none more so than this" : political equality in the early republic -- "A middle party?" : Catholics and Republican Nationalism -- "The great chain of national union" : Catholics and the Republican triumph -- Conclusion -- "A most Democratic and Republican class.

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