The Catholic Refuge - The Refuge Closed

American Political History · Jul 5, 2021 · 14m · transcript

In the summer of 1689, a rumor ran through Maryland that the Catholics had hired the native nations to murder the Protestants in their beds. It was false. It did not matter. The colony had been founded as a refuge from exactly that fear — the old English conviction that a papist plots in the dark — and now that fear walked into the refuge, picked up a gun, and ended it.

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