Nativism and Slavery: The Northern No-Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s.

“Know-Nothing” was the nickname given to the Native American Party, which was comprised of native-born white Protestant Americans who feared America was being overrun by German and Irish Roman Catholic immigrants whose chief allegiance was to the Pope rather than the US government and its republican...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyler Anbinder
Format: Electronic
Published: Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
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Online Access:https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1160