Josephine Bunkley wanted to raise awareness of problems within the convent system... but her "allies" just wanted to use her story to swing 1855 state elections to a party of reactionary xenophobes.
Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/miss-bunkleys-book/
Key sources for this episode include Catherine Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America; Charles Hale's "Our Houses are our Castles"; Josephine Bunkley's The Escaped Nun; and Tyler Anbinder's Nativism & Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s.
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