Contents
Foreword | Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre
Introduction | David J. Endres
Contributor Biographies
A National Legacy of Enslavement: Jesuits and Enslaved Persons | Kelly L. Schmidt
U.S. Catholic Religious and Slavery: Seeking Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation | James Fitz, S.M
Catholic Slaves and Slaveholders in Central Kentucky: Reconstructing a Relationship | C. Walker Gollar
American Reaction to Gregory XVI’s Condemnation of the Slave Trade | John F. Quinn
An Antislavery Archbishop: John B. Purcell and the Slavery Controversy among Border State Catholics | David J. Endres
Catholic Responses to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation | Robert Emmett Curran
The Church and Slavery: A Historical Chronology, 1452–2023 | Ronald LaMarr Sharps
Uncomfortable Entries: Documenting Enslaved and Free Persons of Color in Sacramental Records | Emilie Gagnet Leumas
Contending with a Slaveholding Past: Slavery and U.S. Catholic Historiography | David J. Endres
Selected Bibliography
Index