Stamped with the Image of God: African Americans As God's Image in Black Book

	Foreword	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	The Spanish and French Period
1.	The Brotherhood of Blessed Mary of the Blacks, Valencia, 1472	3
2.	Ecclesiastical Records of St. Augustine Parish in Florida, 1796, 1812	5
3.	Civil and Ecclesiastical Records of Louisiana: The Code Noir, 1724	6
4.	The Ursuline Nuns Limit Their Instruction of Girls of Color, 1797	12
Part 2	The Pre-Civil War Period
5.	The Devotional Life of Blacks in the Confraternity of Mount Carmel, 1796	16
6.	Portrait of a Saintly Slave, 1806	18
7.	Petition of the Catholic People of Color in Philadelphia, 1817	20
8.	The Clandestine Marriages of Slaves, 1839	20
9.	A Catholic Mutual Benefit Society, 1843	22
10.	Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in Santo Domingo, 1854	24
11.	Two Letters by Pierre Toussaint, 1839	25
12.	George Paddington, Black Priest from Ireland, Missionary in Haiti, Friend of Pierre Toussaint, 1836	28
13.	A Black Woman's Letter to Pope Pius IX, 1853	30
14.	Letter of William Henry Elder, Bishop of Natchez, to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, in Which He Describes His Ministry to Slaves, 1858	32
15.	The Defense of Slavery: The Pastoral Letter of Monsignor the Bishop of Natchitoches on the Occasion of the War of the South for Its Independence, 1861	35
16.	In Defense of Slavery: A Tract for the Times, Slavery and Abolitionism Being the Substance of a Sermon Preached in the Church of St. Augustine, Florida, on the 4th Day of January, 1861, Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer, by the Right Reverend A. Verot, D.D., Vicar Apostolic of Florida, 1861	36
17.	The Catholic Opposition to Slavery: In Supremo Apostolatus Fastigio, 1839	38
18.	Daniel O'Connell's Address against Slavery, 1833	40
19.	Public Letter of Augustin Cochin, Catholic Abolitionist, against American Slavery, to Albert, Duc de Broglie, 1863	42
20.	Letter of Monsignor the Bishop of Orleans to the Clergy of His Diocese on Slavery, 1862	43
Part 3	Congregations of Black Sisters
21.	From the "Journal of the Sisters of Providence," 1829	47
22.	The Journal of Sister Bernard Deggs: A History of the Sisters of the Holy Family, 1894	51
Part 4	The Post-Civil War Period
23.	The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, the Minutes of the Extraordinary Session, October 22, 1866	55
24.	The Bishops' Pastoral Letter at the Close of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1866	57
25.	America's First Black Catholic Priests: Bishop John B. Fitzpatrick, Bishop of Boston, to Archbishop John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, 1859	58
26.	Bishop Healy Excuses Himself from Attendance at the Third Black Catholic Congress in Philadelphia, 1891	59
27.	Father Augustus Tolton to John R. Slattery, S.S.J., on His Vocation, 1890	60
28.	Father Tolton Writes St. Katherine Drexel, Foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, 1891	62
29.	Canon Benoit Notes in His Diary the Situation of Blacks in the United States, 1875	64
Part 5	The Sound of Black Catholic Voices
30.	John R. Slattery, S.S.J., and the Education of Black Priests, 1899	67
31.	The Trials of a Black Priest, John Henry Dorsey, S.S.J., to John R. Slattery, S.S.J., 1903	70
32.	Black Parishioners Write to Their Bishop, 1888	72
33.	Daniel Rudd, Newspaper Editor, Lecturer, Lay Leader, 1888	74
34.	Daniel Rudd Explains the Proposed Congress of Black Catholics, 1888	76
35.	Daniel Rudd's Two Letters to William Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati, 1888	78
36.	The Black Catholic Lay Congresses, 1889, 1893	79
37.	Charles H. Butler of Washington, D.C., "The Condition and Future of the Negro Race," 1893	83
Part 6	The "Color Line" of the Twentieth Century
38.	Letter of Cardinal Gotti to the Apostolic Delegate on the Treatment of Black Catholics, 1904	87
39.	A Report to the Holy See on the Situation of African Americans in the United States, 1903	88
40.	"The Catholic Church and the Negro," by Lincoln Valle: The Failure of the Catholic Church in the South to Reach Out to African Americans, 1923	89
41.	Thomas Wyatt Turner, Black Catholic Lay Leader of the Twentieth Century, a Letter to an Archbishop on the Situation of Black Catholics, 1919, and Letter to the Bishops, 1932	90
42.	Permission Granted to Found the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, Savannah, 1916	94
43.	Chronicle of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, 1941	95
44.	Decision to Form a Fraternal Order for Black Catholics, 1909	96
45.	The Colored Knights in Convention, 1916	97
46.	Father Peter Janser, S.V.D., Informs the American Bishops of the Establishment of a Seminary to Teach Black Students for the Priesthood, 1921	98
47.	Pope Pius XI Writes to the Superior General of the Society of the Divine Word to Give Support for the Education of African American Men to the Priesthood, 1923	101
Part 7	Mid-Century: Winds of Change
48.	Claude McKay, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Convert, 1946-47	103
49.	The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman, by Ellen Tarry, 1955	107
Part 8	Civil Rights and African American Catholics
50.	A Statement of the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, 1968	111
51.	The Survival of Soul: National Black Sisters' Conference Position Paper, 1969	114
52.	Lawrence Lucas, A Black Priest Faces the Reality of Racism in the Catholic Church, 1970	116
53.	Joseph Davis, The Beginning of the National Office for Black Catholics, 1970	118
54.	National Office for Black Catholics, Black Perspectives on Evangelization of the Modern World, 1974	121
55.	Edward K. Braxton, "Toward a Black Catholic Theology," 1977	124
56.	The Black Catholic Theological Symposium, 1978	127
Part 9	The Church Addresses Racism
57.	Bishop Vincent Waters Desegregates All Catholic Parishes in North Carolina, 1953	131
58.	U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Racism, 1979	134
59.	Black Bishops of the United States, Pastoral Letter on Evangelization, 1984	135
60.	Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, Statement on Racism, 1988	137
61.	Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Black Bishops' Letter on Racism, 1989	140
Part 10	The Witness of African American Catholics: Challenge and Hope
62.	Clarence Rivers, "The Gift of Music," 2001	143
63.	Bryan Massingale, "The African American Experience and United States Roman Catholic Ethics," 1997	145
64.	M. Shawn Copeland, "Catholic Theology: African American Context," 1998	146
65.	Thea Bowman, "Voice of the People, Voice of an Age," 1985	148
66.	Diana L. Hayes, Voice of Womanists, 1998	151
	Index	153