Box 1

Scope and Contents Contains a transcription of the “Exhortatio ad Nigros Servos” (“An exhortation to black slaves”). This undated, typed transcription also contains several notes identifying the place, date, and community addressed in the “Exhortatio,” and suggests that its author was Anthony Kohlmann, S.J. There are also photocopies of the collection’s previous card catalog record, which suggests that the author was Paul Kohlmann, S.J. Materials on Slavery...

Scope and Contents This bound item is a copy of volume one of Joannes Caspar Saettler's Theologia Moralis Universa (Strasbourg, 1776). Bound with it is a printed German catechism, several pages of manuscript notes in various hands, annotations on the printed pages of the Theologia, and a handwritten exhortation in English, circa 1815-1819. The exhortation, bearing the Latin title “Exhortatio ad nigros servos” (“An exhortation to black slaves”), is addressed to the...