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 ...
Many Jesuit missions, churches, and schools also benefited from the sale of enslaved Africans and African Americans; the profits from such trafficking were used to support or expand the order’s institutions. By the mid-18th century and the beginning of the suppression, the Jesuits’ holdings ...