Mother Beasley

Mother Beasley

ACH036: Mother Beasley was a free Black woman who married into wealth and then gave it all away as a widow in order to found one of the first Catholic religious orders for Black women in the US. Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell the story of this courageous woman who also defied the law to educate enslaved children and spent her life serving others.

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