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Box 62

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Slavery, Correspondence from Batey to McSherry Related to 1838 Sale, 1838

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 5
Identifier: 119_40_10
Scope and Contents

Letter from Jesse Batey to William McSherry, S.J., June 27, 1838

**Former finding aid locations: 119_40_10; 112W3**



Materials on Slavery

This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding and to the 1838 sale of approximately 300 enslaved individuals.

"Eliza has not yet arrived": Jesse Batey to Fr. McSherry on the expected arrival of an enslaved woman, June 27, 1838 [GSA266]

Dates: 1838