Masterless Mistresses The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society 1727 1834 First Edition by Emily Clark ISBN 0807831220 9780807831229

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ISBN 10: 0807831220

ISBN 13: 9780807831229 

Author: Emily Clark

During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less welcoming. Emily Clark explores the transformations required of the Ursulines as their distinctive female piety collided with slave society, Spanish colonial rule, and Protestant hostility.

The Ursulines gained prominence in New Orleans through the social services they provided — schooling, an orphanage, and refuge for abused and widowed women — which also allowed them a self-sustaining level of corporate wealth. Clark traces the conflicts the Ursulines encountered through Spanish colonial rule (1767–1803) and after the Louisiana Purchase, as Protestants poured into Louisiana and were dismayed to find a powerful community of self-supporting women and a church congregation dominated by African Americans. The unmarried nuns contravened both the patriarchal order of the slaveholding American South and the Protestant construction of femininity that supported it. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, Masterless Mistresses exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.

Table of contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. List of Illustrations
3. List of Tables
4. List of Abbreviations
5. Introduction
6. Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe

Part 1. Transplantations: The French Legacy
7. Making a Match: The Ursuline Mission to New Orleans
8. The Order Was Well Kept: Creating and Sustaining Community
9. Inner Spirit, Outward Signs: French Feminine Piety at Work

Part 2. Transformations: Old World to New
10. Differences of Nation and Mentality: Testing the Bonds of Community
11. It Is the Custom of the Country: The Ursuline Encounter with Slavery
12. The Wages of Zeal: Change and the Convent Economy

Part 3. Confrontations: A Catholic Colony Meets a Protestant Nation
13. The Republic Encounters the Nun
14. Epilogue. A Woman of Masculine Appearance and Character: Antebellum Anti-Catholicism

15. Appendix 1. Convent Population, 1727–1803
16. Appendix 2. Ursuline Slave Families
17. Index

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