John F. Quinn, Ph.D., “The French Effect: How Rochambeau’s Occupation Benefited the Irish in Newport”
John F. Quinn, Ph.D., “The French Effect: How Rochambeau’s Occupation Benefited the Irish in Newport”
Newport is well known as having been a religiously diverse and tolerant city in the colonial era. Newporter’s accepted Baptists, Quakers and Jews into their midst in the seventeenth century. The welcome did not extend to Catholics, however. Pamphlets and sermons often warned residents of the dangers of “popery” and effigies of the pope were