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In exchange, they would receive 272 slaves from the four Jesuit plantations in southern Maryland, [5] [24] constituting nearly all of the slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits. [26] Johnson and Batey were to be held jointly and severally liable and each additionally identified a responsible party as a guarantor.
The St. Thomas complex was also the site of the revival of the Jesuit order in the United States in 1805, after it had been suppressed by the Catholic Church in 1773. Three American priests took their vows at St. Ignatius Church. [2] Some of the slaves owned by the Jesuit Maryland Province resided at St. Thomas Manor.
McSherry became the first provincial superior of the Jesuits' Maryland Province from 1833 to 1837, and laid the groundwork for the sale of the province's slaves in 1838. He then briefly became the president of Georgetown College in 1837, and was simultaneously made provincial superior for a second time in 1839, despite suffering illness to ...
Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, to its end after the Civil War. While Maryland developed similarly to neighboring Virginia, slavery declined in Maryland as an institution earlier, and it had the largest free black population by 1860 of any ...
Realizing that their properties were more profitable if rented to tenant farmers rather than worked by enslaved people, the Jesuits began selling off their bondsmen in 1837. One notable example of this was the sale of 272 slaves by the Jesuit Maryland Province in 1838. [110]
Prior to the Civil War, Jesuit plantations in the United States owned African-American slaves and participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1838, to raise funds Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. sold 272 African-American slaves to plantation owners in Louisiana for the current-day equivalent of three million dollars. Jesuits ...
Compounding the financial insecurity was that the Maryland Jesuits' plantations had been mismanaged and were not generating sufficient income to support the college. [52] To rectify the province's finances, Mulledy, as provincial, sold nearly all the slaves owned by the Jesuit Maryland Province to two planters in Louisiana .
Tavern of slave trader Joe Johnson, the son-in-law of serial killer Patty Cannon Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer Johnson & Patty Cannon , Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware [ 42 ] [ 43 ] A. E. Jones, Talbott County, Md. [ 2 ]