"Let us go free" : slavery and Jesuit universities in America /

The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) are renowned for the quality of their universities and colleges. Less well known is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years Jesuit colleges and seminaries supported themselves on the labor of the enslaved, in Ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gollar, C. Walker (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Jesuits > United States. Georgetown University > History. Jesuit universities and colleges > United States > History. Slavery > United States > History. Slaveholders > United States > History.

Table of Contents:

The Americas, 1492-1619
Central and South America, 1572-1760
Jamestown, 1564-1622
Maryland Adventurers, 1634-1638
Early Colonists 1634-1641
Jesuit Farmers, 1638-1668
The "New Negroes," 1660-1700
Jesuit Slaveholders, 1688-1740
Enslaved Catholics, 1730-1770
Revolution and War, 1770-1789
Georgetown College, 1788-1811
Self-Emancipated People, 1787-1815
Free African Americans, 1800-1815
Maryland Plantations in Decline, 1815-1830
Abandoned People, 1830-1861
The Frontier, 1760-1825
St. Louis, 1825-1863
Kentucky, 1832-1868
Grand Coteau, Louisiana, 1838-1848
Spring Hill, Alabama, 1830-1847
Dominicans in Kentucky, 1768-1832
St. Xavier College, Ohio, 1833-1854
Maryland, 1865-1923
Emancipatory Educators, 1924-2003
Descendants Reunited, 2004-2022 - Conclusion : Regret, Gratitude, and Reconciliation.