"A definite treatment of its subject, Thomas Murphy's book is a fine example of history writ small...The book will stimulate new ways of seeing and thinking about the history of American journalism." -- Joseph P. McKerns, American Historical Review

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Property and Religious Liberty: The Emergence Jesuit Slaveholding Chapter 2 Real Poverty and Apparent Wealth on the Jesuit Farms Chapter 3. Doubt and Debate: Jesuit Questions About Slaveholding Chapter 4. Preaching Versus Pratice: Jesuit Theory and Conduct of Slaveholding Chapter 5. Brother Joseph Mobberly and the Intellectual Antecents of Jesuit Anti-Abolitionism Chapter 6. To Serve The Slave or The Immigrant Chapter 7. The End of Maryland Jesuit Slaveholding, 1838 Epilogue: A Slaveholding Both Anglo-American and Catholic Bibliography