Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America

by Michael D Breidenbach and Michael D. Breidenbach

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process.

In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067424723X
• ISBN13: 9780674247239
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"