The Pope Francis 1. who is a " Jesuit " Priest before he became Pope should now go down on his knees and Say Sorry and the Pray for all the lost Soul of the Slaves In America that they Enslave in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, just like the Australian Prime Minister has done today. Jesuits serving in Maryland in the seventh, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had their own unique motives for Slave Holding. The community also had unique motives when in 1838 it chose to abandon this institution of slavery, not by manumitting its 272 slaves a practice that was not uncommon in Maryland at the time, but by selling them to two sugar plantation owners in Louisiana. Its no coincidence that the Society Of Jesus (Jesuits) turned to slave labor in the last third of the seventeenth century at about the same time as the rest of free-land owning population of Maryland. To say that the Jesuits had a "Unique" motive is not to imply that they did not have the same motives for slave holding as every one else.
But unlike the Protestant majority in Maryland, the Jesuits had rich philosophical and theological heditions to draw from when justifying their decision to use slave labor on their plantations. The Society founder Saint Ignatins had his own idea about slavery and qwing slaves. The Protestant Church Leaders in America were uncomfortable with the idea of bringing Christianity to the slave quarters. The Jesuits plantations were finical disasters were not benefiting from slave labor and belive in the "Racist" notion that African American were inherently incapble of Salvation. By 1820 the Jesuits wanted out of the slave labor peculiar institution. Yet the Maryland Jesuits refused to embrace abolitionism and in fact spoke actively against the movement. They embrace the Bill Of Rights because the First Amendment guaranteed Religious Freedom.
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