Search out the land : the Jews and the growth of equality in British colonial America, 1740-1867 / Sheldon J. Godfrey and Judith C. Godfrey.

Includes bibliographies and index.

setting the Stage. 1. Obstacles to Equality for Religious Minorities in Britain in 1750. 2. The New World before 1740. 3. The Plantation Act, 1740: An Invitation to the Thirteen Colonies and the West Indies. 4. The Characters Take Their Places, 1747 -- Act One: British North America, 1749-1790. 5. Remember Halifax. 6. Founding People, 1760-1763. 7. The "Protestant" Jews of Quebec, 1763-1774. 8. The Liberty Boys. 9. Cries of War and Peace: The Establishment of a Permanent Jewish Community in Canada, 1775-1790 -- Entr'acte. 10. Exemptions from Oaths and Declarations: The Balancing Act for Colonial Equality, 1750-1790 -- Act Two: British North America, 1791-1860. 11. The Retrenchment: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back. 12. The Upper Canada Proving Ground. 13. Beyond the Wilderness: The Jews of Lower Canada, 1791-1831. 14. Colonial Legislatures and the Demise of the State Oaths and the Declaration, 1820-1860. 15. The Last "Little Spot" 16. From Toleration to Equality.

Mapping the history of Canadian Jews from the arrival of the first settlers before 1750 through to the 1860s, Search Out the Land introduces a new set of colourful players on Canada's stage. Ezekiel Solomons, John Franks, Jacob Franks, Chapman Abraham, Rachel Myers, Moses David, Samuel Hart, Elizabeth Lyons, and a host of others now take their appropriate place in Canadian history. Focusing on the significant role played by Jews in British North America in the fight for civil and political rights, the authors compare the development of Canadians' rights with that in other British jurisdictions of the time and set the contribution of Jews within the context of other minority groups, including French Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Quakers.

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