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Copyright © 1998 by Kevin Kenny

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Part of chapter 3 was published as "Nativism, Labor, and Slavery:
The Political Odyssey of Benjamin Bannan, 1850-1860",
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 118 ( October
1994): 325-61. Some of the material on Catholicism in chapters 3,
6, 7,8, and 9 was published as "The Molly Maguires and the
Catholic Church", Labor History, 36 (Summer 1995): 345-76.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kenny Kevin, 1960-
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires/ Kevin Kenny.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-510664-4; 0-19-511631-3 (pbk.)
1. Molly Maguires. 2. Coal miners--Pennsylvania--History.
3. Irish Americans--Pennsylvania--History. 4. Irish Americans--
Pennsylvania--Social conditions. I. Title.
HV6452.P4M64 1998
364.1'06'09748--dc21 96-53599

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