Slavery
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
4.2 Bohemia and St. Joseph's Church (Eastern Shore, Md.), 1840 - 1973
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains records pertaining to the Jesuit Houses on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Bohemia and St. Joseph's Church. Materials include an announcement book (Bohemia), financial records and pew rent books, a sacramental register with notes on church attendance (St. Joseph’s Church), newsclippings, photographs, histories, and publications. In the eighteenth century, Jesuits established two Houses on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula: Bohemia in 1704 and St....
Dates:
1840 - 1973
4.4 White Marsh and Bowie (Prince George's County, Md.), 1818 - 1969
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains records pertaining to the Jesuit Houses at White Marsh and Bowie in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Materials include diaries, announcement books, financial records, visitation memorials, correspondence, parishioner papers, photographs, manuscripts, and newsclippings. Of particular interest are White Marsh sacramental registers covering the years 1818 to 1897, which included bapitsmal, marriage, and burial records. Researchers should also note that 89 of the 272...
Dates:
1818 - 1969
4.6 St. Thomas Manor (Charles County, Md.), 1788 - 1970
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains records related to St. Thomas Manor, the Jesuit House in Charles County, Maryland. Materials include Litterae Annuae, Historia Domus, a sacramental register (recording baptisms, marriages, and burials), correspondence, House library lists, financial records, publications, histories, newsclippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera.Established in 1642, St. Thomas Manor is the only House in Southern Maryland still maintained by the Jesuits. It is also the...
Dates:
1788 - 1970
4.9 Newtown and Leonardtown (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1794 - 1982
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
The records in this subseries pertain to the Jesuit House in St. Mary’s County, Maryland that was first known as Newtown (founded in 1662) and then as Leonardtown (when it was relocated to the town of the same name in 1868). This subseries includes Litterae Annuae and Historia Domus; Newtown House financial records, Newtown House sacramental records, Newtown House correspondence; Saint Joseph’s Church minute book, pew rent book, and treasurer’s accounts; Sacred Heart Church Board of Trustees...
Dates:
1794 - 1982
7.2 George Fenwick, S.J., 1818 - 1856
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains selected, fragmentary papers of George Fenwick, S.J. The materials consist of correspondence and one folder of poetical writing. Of particular note is Fenwick’s correspondence with his former student Patrick Healy, S.J., before Healy’s time as President of Georgetown College. This correspondence includes an 1853 letter from Healy to Fenwick in which Healy alludes to his attempts to pass as white at Holy Cross College; Healy was in fact mixed race, the son of a...
Dates:
1818 - 1856
7.4 John McElroy, S.J., 1813 - 1877
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains selected personal papers of John McElroy, S.J., primarily correspondence, diaries, journals, and notes. In his journals, among many other topics, he makes note of Black congregants (both free and enslaved), discusses his work related to Boston College, and records observations of his time as a chaplain in Mexico during the Mexican-American War. In his correspondence, there are letters from several prominent individuals, including Zachary Taylor, Dolley Madison, and...
Dates:
1813 - 1877
8.4 Carroll Family, 1714 - 1721
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of a financial records book of James Carroll, a wealthy Catholic planter, merchant, and slave owner in Maryland. Known as the “James Carroll Daybook” - though not technically a daybook, as it is not arranged strictly chronologically - this folio-sized volume of nearly 300 pages is a record of the commercial accounts maintained by the innovative planter-merchant James Carroll, including financial transactions related to enslaved individuals. James Carroll...
Dates:
1714 - 1721
8.5 Fenwick Family, 1714 - 1865
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains papers related to the Fenwick family, prominent Catholic landholders and slave holders in St. Mary’s County, Charles County, and Georgetown. The Fenwicks were among the first Catholic settlers in Maryland. The materials reflect the Fenwick family’s financial activity from the early eighteenth century through the mid-1800s; there are also financial records pertaining to Georgetown College. Several Fenwicks entered the Society of Jesus; Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J....
Dates:
1714 - 1865
8.7 Neale Family, 1762 - 1800
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains an account book of the Neale family, one of the earliest Catholic families to settle in Maryland. In addition to their land ownership, they also owned enslaved people. Several Neales joined the Society of Jesus, with Francis Neale, S.J. and Leonard Neale, S.J. serving as acting president or president of Georgetown College.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This folder-level description has been imported from...
Dates:
1762 - 1800
8.8 Sewall Family, 1762 - 1800
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains papers related to the estate of Nicholas Lewis Sewall, including account books, deeds to the family estate Mattapony, and the deed of sale for enslaved individuals. Nicholas Sewall was the father of two Jesuits (Charles, 1744-1806, who returned to Maryland after his education in Europe, and Nicholas, 1745-1834, who remained in England during and after the Suppression.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This...
Dates:
1762 - 1800
4.10 St. Inigoes and Ridge (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1767 - 1985
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
The records in this subseries include announcement books; Annuae Litterae and Historia Domus; diaries; a book of memorials, a census of families, and a scrapbook; correspondence; manuscript histories (including archeological surveys); legal documents; newsclippings; photographs (including glass-plate negatives compiled by Horace McKenna, S.J. around 1933; published materials; financial records; sacramental records; and spiritual writings. Please note that a fire at the St. Inigoes Manor...
Dates:
1767 - 1985
Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000119
Scope and Contents
The Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus covers the period from 1630-2004; the bulk of the materials date from 1800-1875. The collection documents the establishment of the Jesuit order, and of the Catholic Church more broadly, in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Also referred to as the Maryland Province Archives (MPA), it consists of the organizational records and papers of the Province in its various iterations: the Mission of Maryland (1634-1773), the...
Dates:
1630-2004
William H. Duncan, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS52
Scope and Contents
The William H. Duncan, SJ Papers contain journals he maintained throughout his Jesuit vocation; financial ledgers regarding the estates of his father John and sister Margaret; and several pieces of correspondence. Of note are entries related to the sale of enslaved persons in Lowndes and Autauga, Alabama, in 1860 (folder 7). Materials on Slavery This collection contain references to slaveholding. Relevant materials have been noted on the...
Dates:
1854 - 1894
Patrick F. Healy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS57
Scope and Contents
The Patrick F. Healy, SJ Papers consist of diaries, academic notebooks, correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, and other personal papers written by or concerning Healy and his family. The materials cover the period from 1841-1983; the bulk of the materials date from 1877-1906.The twelve diaries in the collection primarily record appointments. The correspondence consists of a single folder of materials written by Healy (1871-1903), as well as two folders of correspondence...
Dates:
1841 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1877 - 1906
Joseph Mosley, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS25
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Mosley, SJ Papers consist of sixteen letters written by Mosley to his family, and cover the period from 1757-1786. Fifteen of the letters are addressed to “Mrs. Dunn Junior,” Mosley’s sister (living in Northumberland, England); one letter is to his brother, Michael Mosley, SJ (living in Shropshire, England). The letters contain commentary on the environment, politics, and residents of colonial Maryland, and on Jesuit life in the Maryland region, especially in relation to the...
Dates:
1757 - 1786
David Landers Peruvian Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS458
Scope and Contents
The David Landers Peruvian Collection contains fifteen autographed legal documents, dated 1566 to 1626, in addition to a listing of hospital patients from 1776 and an Incan quipu. The documents are linked at times by a common witness, or notary public, along with other signatures from those involved in the particular exchange. The Peruvian documents demonstrate the importance placed by the Spaniards in maintaining a written record for a wide variety of transactions during the colonial era....
Dates:
1566-1776; Majority of material found within 1566-1626
Matthews Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-730917
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates:
1812 - 1976
John McElroy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS23
Scope and Contents
The John McElroy, SJ Papers contain diaries, correspondence, Golden Jubilee materials, retreat notes, biographical information and other writings, and some business and financial records from McElroy’s tenure as Procurator of Georgetown College. McElroy’s diary (1813-1821) documents enslaved people at Georgetown College and at several Jesuit plantations in Maryland. Materials on Slavery Some folders in this collection contain references to...
Dates:
1803 - 1905
Thomas F. Mulledy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS26
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of papers documenting the spiritual ministry and correspondence of Thomas Mulledy from the time of his entry in the Society of Jesus in 1815 until his death in 1860. The papers include sermons, 1829-1860; discourses, exercises, instructions, and lectures, 1834-1860; mass intentions, 1824-1860; and verses, 1817-1859. They also include two manuscripts: "Liber Manualis Sacerdotum" ("Priest's Manual"), 1815-1828, and "Vade Mecum" ("Go With Me"), 1815-1822....
Dates:
1815 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1860
Paul and Anthony Kohlmann, SJ papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS16
Scope and Contents
The Paul and Anthony Kohlmann, SJ papers consist of a heavily annotated printed, bound volume with several pages of manuscript notes inserted. The 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, and a handwritten exhortation in English, circa 1815-1819. The exhortation, bearing the Latin title “Exhortatio ad nigros servos” (“An...
Dates:
1776; circa 1815-1819