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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809897803321

Autore

Morrow Diane Batts <1947->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908735-9-0

0-8078-6215-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

271/.97

Soggetti

African American Catholics - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.