Masterless Mistresses The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834

Name: Masterless Mistresses The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
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ISBN: 9780807858226

ISBN-10: 0807858226

ISBN-13: 9780807858226

Edition: 2007

Authors: Emily Clark

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History and associate professor of history at Tulane University. She is author of Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


List of Tables


List of Abbreviations


Introduction


Prelude. Old World Origins: Female Piety and Social Imperatives in Europe



Transplantations: The French