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Bohemia's schoolmaster pays Ben and Jack, two enslaved men, 1746
In 1745, Fr. Thomas Poulton, SJ began a preparatory school at Bohemia plantation in Cecil County, Maryland. This account entry from 1746 shows Mr. Wyatt, the schoolmaster, paying Jack and Ben, two enslaved men on the plantation.
John Carroll,…
John Carroll,…
William Harris and Basil Butler donate land to the Catholic church for a school for black children in Iberville Parish, La., 1897
In 1897, William Harris and Basil Butler donated land to the Catholic Church in Louisiana "for the purpose of assisting and advancing Christian education among the colored children" of Iberville Parish, Louisiana.
Basil Butler (b. 1824), the son…
Basil Butler (b. 1824), the son…
School for Colored Persons at Trinity Church, 1819
Rev. John McElroy comments on the instruction of black students at Trinity Church in Georgetown in 1819.