Persons of color and religious at the same time : the Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 / Diane Batts Morrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrow, Diane Batts, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American Catholics--History--19th century.

African American Catholics.

Oblate Sisters of Providence--History--19th century.

Oblate Sisters of Providence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Charter Members of the Oblate Sisters; 2. James Hector Joubert's a Kind of Religious Society; 3. The Respect Which Is Due to the State We Have Embraced: The Development of Oblate Community Life and Group Identity; 4. Our Convent: The Oblate Sisters and the Baltimore Black Community; 5. The Coloured Oblates (Mr. Joubert's): The Oblate Sisters and the Institutional Church; 6. The Coloured Sisters: The Oblate Sisters and the Baltimore Community

7. Everything Seemed to Be Progressing: The Oblate Sisters and the End of an Era, 1840-18438. Of the Sorrow and Deep Distress of the Sisters . . . We Draw a Veil: The Oblate Sisters in the Crucible, 1844-1847; 9. Happy Daughters of Divine Providence: The Maturation of the Oblate Community, 1847-1860; 10. Our Beloved Church: The Oblate Sisters and the Black Community, 1847-1860; 11. The Oblates Do Well Here, Although I Presume Their Acquirements Are

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-327) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873590

9780807862155

0807862150

OCLC:

476237181