{"product_id":"let-us-go-free-slavery-and-jesuit-universities-in-america-paperback","title":"\"Let Us Go Free\": Slavery and Jesuit Universities in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. Walker Gollar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the order's impact on higher education. Less well known, however, is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges and seminaries in the United States supported themselves on the labor of the enslaved. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Let Us Go Free\"\u003c\/i\u003e tells the complex stories of the free and enslaved people associated with these Catholic institutions. Walker Gollar shows that, in spite of their Catholic faith, Jesuits were in most respects very typical slaveholders. At times, they may have been concerned with the spiritual and physical well-being of the enslaved, but mostly they were concerned with the finances of their plantations and farms. Gollar traces the legacies of the Jesuits' participation in the slaveholding economy, portrays the experiences of those enslaved by the Jesuits, and shares the Jesuits' attempts to come to terms with their history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply based on original research in Jesuit archives, \u003ci\u003e\"Let Us Go Free\"\u003c\/i\u003e provides a vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding for the general reader interested in the historical relationship between slavery and universities in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. Walker Gollar\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of church history in the Department of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He specializes in the history of American Catholicism. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican and Catholic: Stories of the People who Built the Church\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780375576864,"sku":"9781647123864","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5d3f571bb1d947e58b7f76db241193e7_7897acbd-257a-4161-bc95-260a63f3e18e.webp?v=1780527004","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/let-us-go-free-slavery-and-jesuit-universities-in-america-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}