"Let Us Go Free"
Georgetown University Press (Verlag)
978-1-64712-385-7 (ISBN)
The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the order’s impact on higher education. Less well known, however, is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges and seminaries in the United States supported themselves on the labor of the enslaved.
“Let Us Go Free” tells the complex stories of the free and enslaved people associated with these Catholic institutions. Walker Gollar shows that, in spite of their Catholic faith, Jesuits were in most respects very typical slaveholders. At times, they may have been concerned with the spiritual and physical well-being of the enslaved, but mostly they were concerned with the finances of their plantations and farms. Gollar traces the legacies of the Jesuits’ participation in the slaveholding economy, portrays the experiences of those enslaved by the Jesuits, and shares the Jesuits’ attempts to come to terms with their history.
Deeply based on original research in Jesuit archives, “Let Us Go Free” provides a vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding for the general reader interested in the historical relationship between slavery and universities in the United States.
C. Walker Gollar is professor of church history in the Department of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He specializes in the history of American Catholicism. He is the author of American and Catholic: Stories of the People who Built the Church (2015).
List of IllustrationsPreface: Molly and Thomas BrownIntroduction
Part 1 ColonizationChapter 1 The Americas, 1492–1619Chapter 2 Central and South America, 1572–1760Chapter 3 Jamestown, 1564–1622Chapter 4 Maryland Adventurers, 1634–1638Chapter 5 Early Colonists, 1634–1641Chapter 6 Jesuit Farmers, 1638–1668Chapter 7 The "New Negroes," 1660–1700
Part 2 GeorgetownChapter 8 Jesuit Slaveholders, 1688–1740Chapter 9 Enslaved Catholics, 1730–1770Chapter 10 Revolution and War, 1770–1789Chapter 11 Georgetown College, 1788–1811Chapter 12 Self-Emancipated People, 1787–1815Chapter 13 Free African Americans, 1800–1815Chapter 14 Maryland Plantations in Decline, 1815–1830Chapter 15 Abandoned People, 1830–1861
Part 3 The Catholic FrontierChapter 16 The Frontier, 1760–1825Chapter 17 St. Louis, 1825–1863Chapter 18 Kentucky, 1832–1868Chapter 19 Grand Coteau, Louisiana, 1838–1848Chapter 20 Spring Hill, Alabama, 1830–1847Chapter 21 Dominicans in Kentucky, 1768–1832Chapter 22 St. Xavier College, Ohio, 1833–1854
Part 4 DescendantsChapter 23 Maryland, 1865–1923Chapter 24 Emancipatory Educators, 1924–2003Chapter 25 Descendants Reunited, 2004–2020Conclusion: Regret, Gratitude, and Reconciliation
BibliographyIndex About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 Figures; 5 Graphs; 13 Maps; 67 Illustrations, black and white; 3 Tables, unspecified; 18 Charts |
| Verlagsort | Washington, DC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 726 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64712-385-2 / 1647123852 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64712-385-7 / 9781647123857 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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