Persons of color and religious at the same time : the Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 /
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
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002
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Table of 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