The New Orleans Sisters Of The Holy Family

Author : Edward T. Brett
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268075880

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The New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family by Edward T. Brett Pdf

The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans, of teaching slaves and free people of color, caring for orphans and the elderly, and tending to the poor and needy. Utilizing previously unpublished archival documents along with extensive personal correspondence and interviews, Edward T. Brett has produced a fascinating account of the 110-year mission of the Sisters of the Holy Family to the Garifuna people of Belize. Brett discusses the foundation and growth of the struggling order in New Orleans up to the sisters' decision in 1898 to accept a teaching commitment in the Stann Creek District of what was then British Honduras. The early history of the British Honduras mission concentrates especially on Mother Austin Jones, the superior responsible for expanding the order's work into the mission field. In examining the Belizean mission from the eve of the Second Vatican Council through the post–Vatican II years, Brett sensitively chronicles the sisters' efforts to conform to the spirit of the council and describes the creative innovations that the Holy Family community introduced into the Belizean educational system. In the final chapter he looks at the congregation's efforts to sustain its missionary work in the face of the shortage of new religious vocations. Brett’s study is more than just a chronicle of the Holy Family Sisters' accomplishments in Belize. He treats the issues of racism and gender discrimination that the African American congregation encountered both within the church and in society, demonstrating how the sisters survived and even thrived by learning how to skillfully negotiate with the white, dominant power structure.

Author : Sister Mary Bernard Deggs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253215439

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No Cross, No Crown by Sister Mary Bernard Deggs Pdf

Nineteenth-century New Orleans was a diverse city. The French-speaking Catholic Creoles, whether black, white, or racially mixed-so different from the city's English-speaking residents-inspired intense curiosity and speculation. But none of the city's inhabitants evoked as much wonder as did the Sisters of the Holy Family, whose mission was to evangelize slaves and free people of color and to care for the poor, sick, and elderly. These women, whose community still thrives, are portrayed in an account written between 1896 and 1898 by one of their sisters, Mary Bernard Deggs, who shortly before her death made it her mission to record the remarkable historical journey the women had taken to serve those of their race. Although Deggs did not officially join the Sisters of the Holy Family until 1873, she was a student at the sisters' early school on Bayou Road and thus would have known, as a child, Henriette Delille, the founder and first mother superior of the Sisters of the Holy Family, and the other women who joined her. This account captures, in a most graphic way, the founding of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842 and the difficult years that followed. It was not until 1852 that the foundresses were able to take their first official vows and exchange their blue percale gowns for black ones (and it was 1873 before they were permitted to wear a formal religious habit). Shortly before Delille's death in 1862, Union forces seized the city, and Delille's successor, Juliette Gaudin, faced dire economic circumstances. The war and postwar years economically devastated New Orleans and its population. Freed slaves poured into the city, unintentionally adding themselves to the already overwhelming mission of the sisters. Those were the poorest and most uncertain years the sisters were to face. We know very little about Sister Mary Bernard Deggs herself, but her history of the early years of the Sisters o

Author : Lois Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469606569

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins by Lois Brown Pdf

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North. Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information about her most influential mentors, colleagues, and professional affiliations; and details of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist. Richly grounded in archival sources, Brown's work offers a definitive study that clarifies a number of inconsistencies in earlier writing about Hopkins. Brown re-creates the life of a remarkable woman in the context of her times, revealing Hopkins as the descendant of a family comprising many distinguished individuals, an active participant and supporter of the arts, a woman of stature among professional peers and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : WISC:89064466907

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Sadliers' Catholic Directory, Almanac and Ordo by Anonim Pdf

"With a full report of the various dioceses in the United States and British North America, and a list of archbishops, bishops, and priests in Ireland.

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Women
ISBN : 025334686X

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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection by Rosemary Skinner Keller,Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marie Cantlon Pdf

A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.

Author : Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1565548310

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New Orleans Architecture by Friends of the Cabildo,Roulhac Toledano,Mary Louise Christovich,Betsy Swanson Pdf

"This volume focuses on the Bayou Road, which was lined with the country seats and residences of the city's earliest settlers."--The publisher.

Author : James B. Bennett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691170848

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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans by James B. Bennett Pdf

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006007485

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Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's Directory for the United States, Canada and the British Provinces by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Francis Borgia Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1430582072

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A History of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans by Mary Francis Borgia Hart Pdf

Author : Turry Flucker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439622414

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African Americans of New Orleans by Turry Flucker Pdf

Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of "Founding Fathers" just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Americans. In spite of their subjugated role as slaves, African Americans of Louisiana, and subsequently New Orleans, were contributors to the success of the state and the city far beyond their role within the labor force. Imported into the Louisiana Territory by John Law's Company of the Indies, enslaved Africans, fed on a pound of corn a day, gave birth to American figures of the 19th and 20th centuries. Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Homer Plessy, Marie Laveau, Buddy Bolden, Julies Lion, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the fighting men of the Louisiana Native Guard, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, and many other African Americans contributed to the growth and development of New Orleans. Every African American citizen of New Orleans is intrinsically connected to the city's cultural and political landscape.

Author : Rachel L. Swarns
Publisher : Random House
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399590863

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The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns Pdf

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion. The story begins with Ann Joice, a free Black woman and the matriarch of the Mahoney family. Joice sailed to Maryland in the late 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Her descendants, who were enslaved by Jesuit priests, passed down the story of that broken promise for centuries. One of those descendants, Harry Mahoney, saved lives and the church’s money in the War of 1812, but his children, including Louisa and Anna, were put up for sale in 1838. One daughter managed to escape, but the other was sold and shipped to Louisiana. Their descendants would remain apart until Rachel Swarns’s reporting in The New York Times finally reunited them. They would go on to join other GU272 descendants who pressed Georgetown and the Catholic Church to make amends, prodding the institutions to break new ground in the movement for reparations and reconciliation in America. Swarns’s journalism has already started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery. The 272 tells an even bigger story, not only demonstrating how slavery fueled the growth of the American Catholic Church but also shining a light on the enslaved people whose forced labor helped to build the largest religious denomination in the nation.

Author : Larry G. Murphy,J. Gordon Melton,Gary L. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1005 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135513382

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Encyclopedia of African American Religions by Larry G. Murphy,J. Gordon Melton,Gary L. Ward Pdf

Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: * Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders * 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) * Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e.g., African American Christians during the Colonial Era, Music in the African American Church)

Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135581237

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Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations by Nina Mjagkij Pdf

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MINN:31951002037600K

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The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norman R. Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462819508

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Footprints of Black Louisiana by Norman R. Smith Pdf

Blacks may have had a hard history on this land of the free. But they have never stepped back or just stayed on the sides while the world continues turning. In their own simple ordinary ways, they have made extraordinary contributions of works that benefitted society until today. In appreciation and recognition of some remarkable Black Louisianians, author Norman R. Smith honors them with the release of his newly published book, Footprints of Black Louisiana. Black men and women are proud of their heritage and they only want a chance to prove their worth to society. The author’s collection unveils a mass of great Black Louisianians and he tells who they are and what they have done to make America a better place. He invites the reader to follow the Footprints of Black Louisiana as he spotlights: Black activist, philanthropists, civic and political leaders, businessmen, educators, religious leaders, musical, visual and literary artists, entertainers, scientists, inventors, medical professionals, and others who have made long lasting contribution to the world. This collection features distinct images of landmarks and significant buildings erected through the efforts of Black Louisianians.