Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760

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In 1727, twelve nuns left France to determine a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable for founding a college that educated all free ladies, without reference to social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony’s military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis a few of the enslaved population of colonial Louisiana. In Voices from an Early American Convent, Emily Clark extends the bounds of early American ladies’s history in the course of the firsthand accounts of those remarkable French missionaries, specifically Marie Madeleine Hachard. These fascinating documents reveal ladies of determination, courage, and conviction, who chose to forgo the normal European roles of wife and mother, embrace lives of public service, and forge a community a few of the diverse inhabitants — enslaved and free — who occupied early New Orleans.

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