![]() ![]() In reading Rodney Stark’s account of anti-Catholic history - a volume that debunks hundreds of years of prejudice, myth, and false allegations - I could set these stories in context. Later, a friend told how the nuns at one of Louisiana’s most exclusive Roman Catholic convent schools, who had schooled the daughters of elite white families at that time, had also secretly taught the slave girls who accompanied them to read. It might have not have been violent, but it was a deeply disturbing form of enslavement. Then I found out that slaves were forbidden to learn to read, and so their mistress had to read them the recipes. But, on a tour of a New Orleans 19th-century home, I discovered that the lady of the house had worked closely alongside her slaves in the kitchen. ![]() ![]() UNTIL a visit to Louisiana a couple of years ago, I had always assumed that slaves were completely brutalised. Bearing False Witness: Debunking centuries of anti-Catholic history ![]()
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