Mother Beasley

Feb 24, 2020 | 19th century, black catholic, civil war, educator, episodes, founders, georgia, louisiana, new orleans, religious women, south

Mother Beasley was a free Black woman who married into wealth and then gave it all away as a widow in order to found one of the first Catholic religious orders for Black women in the US. Tom and Noelle Crowe tell the story of this courageous woman who also defied the law to educate enslaved children and spent her life serving others.
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