Slavery, Nativism, and Catholic America’s Civil War Knot

About this episode

This episode explores the complexities of law, power, immigration, and religious conflict in pre-Civil War America through a complicated historical figure.

A warning up front: this episode is not what you expect. We take one complicated figure as our entry point and follow the threads into law, power, immigration, and religious conflict in the decades before the Civil War. The closer we look, the messier the usual story gets and by the end, the whole series clicks into place in a surprising way.     Support the show: Buy me a coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/historyofthepapacy Patreon: http://patreon.com/historyofthepapacy Buy me a book: http://bit.ly/40ckJ8E Have questions, comments or feedback? Here are ways to contact me: Email Us: steve@atozhistorypage.com How to listen: https://www.atozhistorypage.com/podcast Music Provided by: "Sonatina in C Minor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Funeral March for Brass" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Crusade Heavy Perfect Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite Kevin MacLeaod (incomptech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• Slavery
• Nativism
• Catholicism
• Civil War
• Immigration

Keywords

• law
• power
• immigration
• religious conflict
• Civil War

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