"Madison’s ideas dovetailed nicely with Jefferson's belief that the ideal moral framework is one in which there is a vast proliferation of inconsequential denominations and independent churches, each competing with the next. "Freedom," Madison said, "arises from a multiplicity of sects." That ...
"Madison’s ideas dovetailed nicely with Jefferson's belief that the ideal moral framework is one in which there is a vast proliferation of inconsequential denominations and independent churches, each competing with the next. "Freedom," Madison said, "arises from a multiplicity of sects." That ...
The Kaskaskia Jesuits used enslaved Native Americans and Africans to work their plantation and were the largest enslavers in Illinois until the order’s suppression by the French. Georgetown UniversityHealy Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Healy Hall is named after Patrick Healy, a ...
in various roles at Georgetown College (nowGeorgetown University), which the Jesuits founded in 1789 and was the first Roman Catholic college in the United States. By 1838 the Maryland Jesuits had fallen into deep debt, partly because of unprofitable plantations; in order to keep the college ...