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Source 1
Davis, Kenneth C., “America’s True History of Religious Tolerance,” Smithsonian Magazine, October 2010.
Kenneth C. Davis is an American historian. He has written many historical books but is best known for his “Don’t Know Much About…” historical series. He has lectured at museums including the Smithsonian Museum and the American Museum of Natural Science. He has also been published in The New York Times, Newsday and other publications.
This article points out the intolerance of different religions in the colonies. He starts out with the first Christian encounter of intolerance between Europeans on the soil of our present day United States that was considerably bloody. In 1564 a group of French Pilgrims had the dream of religious freedom in the New World. They set up a Huguenot (French Protestant) colony named Fort Caroline near modern day Jacksonville, Florida.
A year later, 1565, the Spanish set up a base at St. Augustine for the sole purpose of wiping Fort Caroline out. Fort Caroline was complete obliterated. In a letter to the King of Spain, Spanish …show more content…
It covers the first Jewish settlers. In September 1654, twenty-three Sephardi, Jew of Spanish-Portuguese descent, entered the harbor of New Amsterdam (New York) on a French ship. The Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal had made them refugees. They had no money and were weary from the fleeing. They were the first Jews in North America and had no common ground with the people there. People were not happy with the new settlers and asked Peter Stuyvesant, the dictatorial Dutch director of New Netherland, to kick them out. Stuyvesant did not the Jews either; he believed they were “deceitful,” “very repugnant,” and “blasphemous.” He did not like Jews, Lutherans, Catholics, or Quakers. He thought if they started to let Jews in then they would not be able to refuse the Lutherans and Papists
Source 1
Davis, Kenneth C., “America’s True History of Religious Tolerance,” Smithsonian Magazine, October 2010.
Kenneth C. Davis is an American historian. He has written many historical books but is best known for his “Don’t Know Much About…” historical series. He has lectured at museums including the Smithsonian Museum and the American Museum of Natural Science. He has also been published in The New York Times, Newsday and other publications.
This article points out the intolerance of different religions in the colonies. He starts out with the first Christian encounter of intolerance between Europeans on the soil of our present day United States that was considerably bloody. In 1564 a group of French Pilgrims had the dream of religious freedom in the New World. They set up a Huguenot (French Protestant) colony named Fort Caroline near modern day Jacksonville, Florida.
A year later, 1565, the Spanish set up a base at St. Augustine for the sole purpose of wiping Fort Caroline out. Fort Caroline was complete obliterated. In a letter to the King of Spain, Spanish …show more content…
It covers the first Jewish settlers. In September 1654, twenty-three Sephardi, Jew of Spanish-Portuguese descent, entered the harbor of New Amsterdam (New York) on a French ship. The Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal had made them refugees. They had no money and were weary from the fleeing. They were the first Jews in North America and had no common ground with the people there. People were not happy with the new settlers and asked Peter Stuyvesant, the dictatorial Dutch director of New Netherland, to kick them out. Stuyvesant did not the Jews either; he believed they were “deceitful,” “very repugnant,” and “blasphemous.” He did not like Jews, Lutherans, Catholics, or Quakers. He thought if they started to let Jews in then they would not be able to refuse the Lutherans and Papists