KATC interviews Dorson William Purdy and covers highlights on the gathering of descendants and the Society in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, September 23, 2018.

New York Times: The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings

America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

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Descendants of Enslaved People find their Roots on Sacred Heart Records

By Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, September 12, 2019, Global Sisters Report: A Project of National Catholic Reporter

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'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle'

“In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy.”

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