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- Title
A Looking-Glass for Presbyterians: Recasting a Prejudice in Late Colonial Pennsylvania.
- Authors
BANKHURST, BENJAMIN
- Abstract
The article explores representations of Scots-Irish Presbyterians appearing in pamphlets published in 1764 in Pennsylvania. The author compares and contrasts religious attitudes held by American colonists to those held by contemporary British people. The pamphlets considered were written in response to the actions of the Paxton Boys during the Conestoga Massacres of 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and their subsequent march on Philadelphia. The political debates that ensued involved civic activist Benjamin Franklin, founder and Absolute Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn, and speaker of the legislature Joseph Galloway. The religious debate involved Quakers, Moravians, Mennonites, and Anglicans, as well as Presbyterians.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; PAMPHLETS; RELIGION &; politics; PAXTON Boys; CONESTOGA Massacre, Pa., 1763; RELIGIOUS disputations; ANTI-Presbyterianism literature; EIGHTEENTH century; COLONIAL Pennsylvania, ca. 1600-1775; PENNSYLVANIA state politics &; government, to 1775
- Publication
Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, 2009, Vol 133, Issue 4, p317
- ISSN
0031-4587
- Publication type
Article