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"One Peck of Meal": Food Rations and Social Conditions at St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, 1820.
Br. Joseph Mobberly offers a detailed account of the amount of food allowed to each slave at St. Inigoes as well as their types of clothes and medical attention.
Map of St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, ca. June 1, 1820
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.
Br. Mobberly recounts the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman at St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, 1820
In a diary entry from 1820, Br. Joseph Mobberly offers an account of the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman who was punished as a child because she witnessed the self-flagellation of an unnamed priest from St. Inigo's Mission. For another…
"Cham's Descendants": The Mobberly Diaries, Part II, August 1823
In this section from Br. Joseph Mobberly's Treatise on Slavery he identifies slaves in Maryland as Cham's descendants and cannibals who feast on infants.
Slaveholding and Judicial Opinions of William Gaston (2022)
William Gaston (1778-1844) was Georgetown's first student, enrolling in the school in 1791 before transferring to Princeton. As a congressman from North Carolina, Gaston sponsored the charter that granted Georgetown the authority to award academic…
List of people sold by Fr. Thomas Mulledy in 1838
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.
Podcast: Education Across Generations
Maringouin, Louisiana is a small town of just 1,100 people, 900 of whom can trace their ancestry back to the Maryland Jesuits' 1838 sale of 272 people. Many of those who were sold to Jesse Batey at the West Oak plantation have descendants who remain…
The Marriage of Ben and Nell, March 13, 1803
The marriage of Ben and Nell, took place on March 13, 1803 at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown. Their union, officiated by Rev. Francis Neale, SJ, took place at the "request" of their owners, a Mr. Key & Thomas Sim Lee. The witnesses for this…