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Questions regarding slavery: Rev. Thomas Mulledy, SJ to the Jesuit Superior General, January 7, 1830
In a letter to the new Jesuit Superior General Jan Roothaan, Rev. Thomas Mulledy SJ assesses the state of Georgetown College and poses a set of challenging questions regarding the Jesuits' slaveholding in Maryland. He asks whether the Jesuits' slave…
Proslavery oration by Rev. James Ryder, SJ, August 30, 1835
Rev. James Ryder, SJ, then a professor at Georgetown, gave this anti-abolitionist, proslavery speech in Richmond, Virginia, in 1835.
Ryder would go on to become president of Georgetown from 1840-1845 and again from 1848-1851. He founded…
Ryder would go on to become president of Georgetown from 1840-1845 and again from 1848-1851. He founded…