Bibliograph

Jews and Muslims in British colonial America, a genealogical history, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

Type

Label

Jews and Muslims in British colonial America, a genealogical history, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jews and Muslims in British colonial America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

Sub title

a genealogical history

Summary

"From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial US colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry" --Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters -- Sephardim in the new world -- Virginia: first-and not so English-colony -- Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors -- New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish -- Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends -- Maryland: Catholic in her tastes -- Huguenot South Carolina -- Georgia, the last colony -- Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges

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