TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Emily TI - Masterless mistresses: the New Orleans Ursulines and the development of a new world society, 1727-1834 T2 - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia SN - 9781469601069 AV - BX4543 .M378 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Williamsburg, Va. PB - Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture KW - Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.) KW - Ursulines KW - Louisiana KW - New Orleans KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965108&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -