No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Rating:
Summary: Interesting look at the beginnings of a community of nuns.
Review: I particularly enjoyed the historical bits that the editors
included in "No Cross, No Crown." I had heard of this
congregation before I bought the book, but knew next to nothing
about its beginnings and history. The difficulties that the
women had to face must have been tremendous - for not only were
they female, but also Black or Creole-Black women living in a
southern state in the 1800s. Women who seemed to have to tread a
fine line in working for women of color, both free and slave.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting look at the beginnings of a community of nuns.
Review: I particularly enjoyed the historical bits that the editors
included in "No Cross, No Crown." I had heard of this
congregation before I bought the book, but knew next to nothing
about its beginnings and history. The difficulties that the
women had to face must have been tremendous - for not only were
they female, but also Black or Creole-Black women living in a
southern state in the 1800s. Women who seemed to have to tread a
fine line in working for women of color, both free and slave.