A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America

by Susan Juster

From Nevis to Newfoundland, Catholics were everywhere in English America. But often feared and distrusted, they hid in plain sight, deftly obscuring themselves from the Protestant authorities. Their strategies of concealment, deception, and misdirection frustrated colonial census takers, and their presence has likewise eluded historians of religion, who have portrayed Catholics as isolated dots in an otherwise vast Protestant expanse.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469686228
• ISBN13: 9781469686226
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages