Jews and Muslims in British colonial America
Subtitle: a genealogical history
By: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates
Contributors: Yates, Donald Neal
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780786464623
Subjects: Muslims; Jews; Ethnic relations; History
Description: "From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial US colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters; title: Sephardim in the new world; title: Virginia: first-and not so English-colony; title: Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors; title: New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish; title: Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends; title: Maryland: Catholic in her tastes; title: Huguenot South Carolina; title: Georgia, the last colony; title: Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges.