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Joubert would provide direction, be chaplain, solicit financial assistance, and encourage other "women of color” to become members of this, the first religious congregation of women of color in the history of the US Catholic Church. Joubert records in his diary, that after learning that a mob of
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members of St. Mary's Lower Chapel. While
English was used in the upper chapel, the language favored in the lower chapel was French, as many of the congregation were refugees from Saint-Domingue. Joubert was introduced to two African American women who were members of the Lower Chapel,
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When he was twelve years old, he was enrolled in the military school at Rebois-en-Brie. Upon graduation young
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