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Hopeful Beginnings, 1808–1823
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During roughly the first two decades of the nineteenth century, destitute, uneducated Irish peasants arrived in the newly designated “city” of Boston. Native Bostonians were hesitant to accept them, but the city’s first Roman Catholic bishop, Frenchman John Cheverus, offered a warm welcome. The control of public education in Boston, as in Massachusetts, was completely in the hands of Protestants, who frequently warred among themselves over control of the schools but were united in their suspicion of Catholicism. The city’s publicly supported schools were much revered by the “native” population but offensive to Roman Catholic sensibilities because of their obvious Protestant flavor. Sincere efforts of the Catholic leadership to counteract this objectionable feature of life in Boston by opening their own schools saw only token success during this period, a lack of success that proved to be a dire forecast of the decades ahead.
Title: Hopeful Beginnings, 1808–1823
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During roughly the first two decades of the nineteenth century, destitute, uneducated Irish peasants arrived in the newly designated “city” of Boston.
Native Bostonians were hesitant to accept them, but the city’s first Roman Catholic bishop, Frenchman John Cheverus, offered a warm welcome.
The control of public education in Boston, as in Massachusetts, was completely in the hands of Protestants, who frequently warred among themselves over control of the schools but were united in their suspicion of Catholicism.
The city’s publicly supported schools were much revered by the “native” population but offensive to Roman Catholic sensibilities because of their obvious Protestant flavor.
Sincere efforts of the Catholic leadership to counteract this objectionable feature of life in Boston by opening their own schools saw only token success during this period, a lack of success that proved to be a dire forecast of the decades ahead.
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