Author: Diane Batts Morrow
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854013
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Annotation Founded in Baltimore in 1828, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African-American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood, Batts Morrow demonstrates the centrality of race in the Oblate experience.