Masterless mistresses the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 /
Emily Clark.
- Williamsburg, Va. : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; (c)2007. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2007.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prelude: Old world origins: female piety and social imperatives in Europe -- I: Transplantations: the French legacy -- 1. Making a match: the Ursuline mission to New Orleans -- 2. The order was well kept: creating and sustaining community -- 3. Inner spirit, outward signs: French feminine piety at work -- II: Transformations: old world to new -- 4. Differences of nation and mentality: testing the bonds of community -- 5. It is custom of the country: the Ursuline encounter with slavery -- 6. The wages of zeal: change and the convent economy -- III: Confrontations: a catholic colony meets a Protestant nation -- 7. The Republic encounters the nun -- Epilogue: A woman of masculine appearance and character: antebellum anti-Catholicism.
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans and educated women and girls in literacy, numeracy and the Catholic faith. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, this work exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.
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Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.) Ursulines--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans