| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828–1860. By Diane Batts Morrow. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2726-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5401-8.)

In 1828 Fr. James Joubert, a French-born Sulpician priest attached to St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, met with two women, Elizabeth Lange and Marie Balas, to discuss opening a school for black children. Lange and Balas, who were already conducting a small school at home, told him they had been waiting for over ten years for an opportunity "to consecrate themselves to God for this good work" (p. 15). The compatible interests of the white priest and the black women led to the formation of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first community of black Roman Catholic sisters in the United States. Traditionally, Joubert, the Oblates' spiritual director until his death in 1843, received credit for founding the community. Morrow argues that the initiative of the women requires that Lange, the sisters' first superior, should be regarded as "cofounder."

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