“Though Their Skin Remains Brown, I Hope Their Souls Will Soon Be White”: Slavery, French Missionaries, and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the American South, 1789–1865

On August 21, 1861, Bishop Auguste Marie Martin of Natchitoches, Louisiana, issued a pastoral letter “on the occasion of the War of Southern Independence.” In it, Martin argued that slavery was “the manifest will of God.” It was the will of God for Catholics to continue “snatching from the barbarity...

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Main Author: Pasquier, Michael (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Church history
Year: 2008, Volume: 77, Issue: 2, Pages: 337-370
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