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Enslaved carpenters at Old North, 1815-1817
This accounting ledger entry shows a series of construction costs, including a payment for enslaved carpenters. Their owner Mr.Herard received $50.25 from Georgetown University for the work of his enslaved men. These costs are for the expansion of…
Expenses for transportation of slaves from St. Inigoes and White Marsh, June 25, 1838
These entries from June 25, 1838 document the transportation costs of an undetermined number of enslaved persons sold from White Marsh and St. Inigoes plantations.
In sum, the Jesuits spent $21 in transporting a group from White Marsh and $123.06…
In sum, the Jesuits spent $21 in transporting a group from White Marsh and $123.06…
Expenses for transporting slaves from St. Thomas and St. Inigoes to Alexandria, undated [likely 1838]
These undated receipts record a payment of $84.67 dollars for the transportation of an unspecified number of persons from St. Thomas Manor and St. Inigoes. The itemized receipt includes charges for lodging and supper in Piscataway, a ferry boat to…
Fanny & her family
Discusses sale and manumission of slaves at Bohemia.
Father Curley's campus map, 1854
This map was created by Father James Curley, S.J. circa 1854. Father Curley was a Professor of Physics, Mathematics, and Botany at Georgetown and was instrumental in the building of the campus Observatory. This map does not show a separate quarters…
Feast of St. Xavier, 1813
Rev. John McElroy notes in his journal that everyone in the College is celebrating the Feast of St. Xavier "except the Servants."
Final Pay Roll, Chatham Plantation, Ascension Parish, La., December 31, 1865
This document from the Freedmen's Bureau is a record of the wages paid to the freed people on John R. Thompson's Chatham Plantation in Ascension Parish in 1865. The freed people included former enslaved people of the Maryland Jesuits who had been…
Financial Statement of Georgetown College, 1838
The following statement from January 1, 1838 records debts of Georgetown College as well as those due to the college.
First Performance of the "Contrabands" of Georgetown College, 1861
Playbill for a blackface minstrel show at Georgetown dated December 17, 1861.By December 1861, the word "contraband" had come to refer to enslaved people who had escaped to the Union Army.For more information on the Georgetown "Contrabands", see…
Fr. Ambrose Maréchal hires out James, a blacksmith from Bohemia Plantation, January 11, 1798
These articles of agreement describe the terms on which James, an enslaved man at Bohemia plantation in Cecil County Maryland, was hired out by Fr. Ambrose Maréchal to Mr. John Morton for one hundred dollars a year.
Fr. Maréchal, a Sulpician…
Fr. Maréchal, a Sulpician…