The Black Convent Slave

First published in 1891, The Black Convent Slave is a sensationalist exposé of alleged abuses within the Catholic Church involving a young Black woman who had been forcibly taken into a convent and enslaved. While the book is now largely discredited for its lack of veracity, it remains a valuable artifact of the anti-Catholic and anti-Black prejudices that were prevalent in American society during the late 19th century.

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