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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Common Enemy Eases Bigotry: the Case of the Revolution
Protestants used to hate the Pope--they even had a holiday celebration of their hatred: Pope Night (Nov. 5). But as Boston 1775 describes when the Revolution tried to turn the French Canadians against Britain, and then allied with Catholic France, that demonstration of bigotry got suppressed.
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