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The convent had an obligation to give refuge to every female in need, usually separated and divorced women. During the 1780s, it housed 18 nuns and novices, and 40-50 female guests. The convent also housed the only confirmed school for girls in the colony, which offered reading, writing and
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in 20-26 June 1793, when most of the city was burnt and the white population took refuge in the ships of the harbour and departed with them.
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in 1791, there was a report that several of its students had been enrolled by the student "Princess
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Jeremy D. Popkin, Facing Racial
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Nou La, We Here: Remembrance and Power in the Arts of
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