No Cross, No Crown
Subtitle: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Contributors: Virginia Meacham Gould (Editor); Charles E. Nolan (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780253336309
Subjects: Ethnic Sociology; Women In The U.S.; Social Science; Religion - Catholicism; Sociology; Christianity - History - Catholic; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - State & Local - General; Christian communities & monasticism; History of specific subjects; Religious communities & monasticism; c 1800 to c 1900; Religious studies; Women's studies; African-American Studies; U. S. American history; Ethnic Studies - General; Women's Studies - General; African Americans; Biography; Louisiana; New Orleans; Nuns; Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.)
First sentence: DEGGS begins her historical narrative with an account of the difficulties of the early days.