Mathilda Beasley or Josephine Beasley

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Mathilda Beasley or Josephine Beasley

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Originally believed to be a portrait of Mathilda Beasley, manager of the Sacred Heart Orphanage. Based on the style of clothing and hair, the image is thought to be circa 1890, when Mathilda would have been 71 years old. The image is most likely of Josephine Beasley, wife of Abram Beasley who was a child of Mathilda's husband. Josephine and her husband were both domestic servants in Savannah.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Beasley, Mathilda, Mother, 1832-1903

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Mother Mathilda Beasley (née Taylor) was the first African American Roman Catholic nun in Georgia. Much of Beasley’s life—including the circumstances that led to her freedom, her move from her birthplace in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Savannah, Georgia, and her conversion to Roman Catholicism—remain generally undocumented. What is known, however, is her birth year, 1832, and her lifelong commitment to the care and education of black children of Savannah. Born to an enslaved mother in New Orlea...