ISBN:
9780786464623
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 285 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2012
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Jews History 17th century
;
Jews History 18th century
;
Muslims History 17th century
;
Muslims History 18th century
;
USA Oststaaten
;
USA Südoststaaten
;
Juden
;
Muslim
;
Einwanderung
;
Geschichte 1585-1775
;
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
USA
;
USA
;
Juden
;
Muslim
;
Einwanderung
;
Geschichte 1585-1775
Abstract:
"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
Description / 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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