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In the days leading up to the sale of 1838, the Jesuits of Maryland sold a number of slaves to local slaveholders. This entry from March 4, 1838 documents one of those sales. In that transaction, the Jesuits at St. Thomas' Manor sold a "a negro boy"…

In 1807, the Prince George's County Court certified Edward Queen's status as a free man. Queen had sued the Rev. John Ashton for his freedom in the Maryland General Court in 1791. His certificate of freedom describes him as "a very dark mulatto lad…

On August 2, 1830 in St. Mary's County Court, Fr. Joseph Carberry, manager of St. Inigoes plantation, recorded the manumission of an enslaved man named Augustin Linsey.The document describes Linsey as "about 25 years, five feet 7 inches high, slender…

In 1818, Fr. John Henry, the manager of the Jesuits' Bohemia farm sold five enslaved people to a neighbor involved in the interstate slave trade. However, a Methodist judge put the enslaved men in jail to prevent them from being illegally transported…

On February 15, 1804, the Jesuits purchased Peter and his wife Prisc for St. Inigoes Plantation. They paid 400 dollars for the couple.

The ledger also indicates that on the same day they paid 3.77 to apprehend a "runaway Matt."

This cashbook entry from January, 1804 indicates that the Jesuits sold Frank, an enslaved man from St. Inigoes plantation for $320 dollars.

In a meeting in March of 1797, the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen decided to pay St. Thomas Manor for an enslaved man named Alexius, a "slave in the service of the Bishop."

This cashbook entry from August 15 of the same year records an…

At a meeting held at Georgetown College in 1811, the members of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergy decided to grant to Fr. Joseph Eden the profits from the sale of three enslaved persons: a girl sold by the Rev. Beeston, and two black boys sold…

In this meeting from 1814, the Corporation agreed to sell Jem and his family to settle the claims of William Pasquet, a secular clergyman who had managed the Deer Creek mission.

Since 1804, the priests of the Corporation had been selling enslaved…

At a meeting held at St. Thomas' Manor in 1820, the members of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergy decided "upon mature reflection," to repeal their 1814 decision to "dispose of... the greatest part of the blacks on the different plantations."…