Future President of Georgetown College, Rev. Francis Neale, Purchases an Unnamed Enslaved Woman, 1808

Future President of Georgetown College, Rev. Francis Neale, Purchases an Unnamed Enslaved Woman, 1808

Slavery; Slave bills of sale; Slave women; Slave trade;
Jesuits--History--19th century

This is a record of the 1808 sale of an unnamed enslaved woman as preserved in Georgetown's financial ledgers. Rev. Francis Neale, who would become president of the College the following year, purchased the woman from St. Inigoes for $240 "for the use of College."

Georgetown University Archive

Georgetown Slavery Archive

February 1808

Cory Young

Georgetown University Library

See GSA67

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English

Accounts

GSA95

By linen purchased by Revd F. Neale for the use of the College 33.00

By 1 Negro Woman purchased by do . . .   do 240.00

Manuscript