History of the Papacy Podcast · History of the Papacy
Slavery, Nativism, and Catholic America’s Civil War Knot
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Lyman Beecher, patriarch of the abolitionist dynasty, was a major player against slavery but also a strong nativist and anti-Catholic.
As heard by us
A dense but clarifying look at Catholic life in the United States when slavery and politics would not stay apart.
The episode stays with the entanglement of slavery, immigration, Catholic life, and antebellum politics instead of sorting them into neat compartments. That choice gives it real force.
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You want antebellum America without the tidy mythmaking.
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