Anti-immigrant bias may be key to the mystery of Duffy's Cut
Sketch of a church burning during the nativist riots in Philadelphia in 1844, which largely targeted Irish Catholic families and places of worship. Drawing by J.B. Perry via Library of Congress
(RNS) — The tragic tale has the resonance of a Netflix thriller, but historians say it is less a ghost story than an ugly brew of anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant bias.
