Reimbursement and prison fees for enslaved persons sold from Bohemia, August 1818.

Reimbursement and prison fees for enslaved persons sold from Bohemia, August 1818.

Slaves--Maryland; Slave trade--United States;

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 out of Maryland.

This entry from an account book dated August 1818 records the $300 the Jesuits reimbursed their neighbor and the prison fees incurred in taking the five enslaved persons out of prison.

Maryland Province Archives

Georgetown Slavery Archive

1818-08

Elsa Barraza Mendoza

Maryland Province Archives, Society of Jesus

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GSA387

By cash paid expenses of negroes sold by Fr. Henry at Bohemia. Prison fees &tc Omitted Augt 1818 ----------------} 300.00

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