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This article was very interesting particularly in what it had to say concerning religion. It is so interesting that religion had such a profound effect on the forming of countries. First in that to be British you needed to be protestant and dislike all things catholic. This was interesting because it resulted in the Irish, who felt they had been oppressed by the British, to form a culture within the Catholic religion and rebel against what it was to be British. This later translate over to the Americas, which was a predominately protestant country as well. When the Irish catholic came to the Americas for refuge the Americans would discriminate against them based on their religion. During this time there was a push to get rid of slavery from a lot of northerners, parts of this article reminded me of what Shreshta had to say in her post. She talked about abolition at this time and how it was a process and there are many components that have to be unraveled to understand slavery in America. This article brings up an interesting point on that has to do with what Shreshta was saying slavery was complicated and also intermingled into religion and the prejudice against catholics. For many northerners they say catholicism and slavery as being the same thing, stripping people of their human rights. I think this is an interesting example of the complexities of the feelings going on towards slavery at this time. This idea of religion forming identities and forcing opinions is not new, this has been a common theme throughout this course. Many of the colonies formed in the early days of atlantic imperialism were driven by a heavy religious force, for example the Spanish and there need to convert all people to catholicism. Religion plays a huge part in out history.