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This 1859 map shows the locations and owners of plantations in the central Louisiana parishes of West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, and Ascension. Included in this map are the West Oak plantation in Iberville Parish, then owned by the…

This 1905 map was prepared by Joseph Zwinge, SJ with information from old patents, deeds, and surveys of the Jesuit plantation of St. Thomas Manor. It includes old structures such as Fr. Hunter's House and "tenant houses or negro huts."

A map from St. Inigos plantation ca. 1820. This map indicates buildings such as a dwelling house, the place of the overseer, and the church.

A map of Jesuit stations in Maryland from the 17th to the 19th centuries, showing the locations of Jesuit plantations, farms, and schools, including Bohemia, Frederick, Georgetown, Leonardtown, Newtown, Port Tobacco, St. Inigoes, St. Joseph, St.…

A list of the slaves transported from Alexandria to New Orleans on the Katherine Jackson in November and December, 1838. Many of the men, women, and children listed on this manifest were sold by Thomas Mulledy to Jesse Beatty and Henry Johnson. They…

In 1867, officials in Maryland undertook a census of all the people in Maryland who were emancipated in the state in 1864. The census was prepared in the hope that the ex-slaveowners would be compensated for the loss of their human property, as…

An obituary published in the St. Mary's Beacon, July 22, 1909, honoring the life of Louisa Mason (b. 1812), an enslaved woman owned by the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus.

This is a list of the 67 slaves that Rev. Aloysius Mudd paid taxes on at White Marsh in 1833. The document provides names and values, but not ages. Many of the individuals identified here appear on 1838 bill of sale.

List of men, women, and children sold by Thomas Mulledy in 1838, with name, sex, age, family relationship, and plantation affiliation. This list was compiled from GSA63.

This document sheds some light on the dynamics of the 1838 sale of people from Thomas Mulledy to Henry Johnson. It lists a number of people who "remain on the Estate," several others who were "exchanged," three deaths, and six births.