The 51-year-old who now works as an executive assistant in Georgetown University’s School of Medicine noted that he was born and raised Catholic in Chicago, attending St. All of us here today are here because they were able to endure the suffering they had to live under.” Ignatius Church.Īlexander expressed admiration for his ancestors, “that they survived a very dark time in American history. Inigoes, he was also able to see the gravesite of Father Carbery at the Jesuit cemetery next to St. It’s important we are able to call them by their names.”Īt St. He said it was very meaningful for him to retrace the lives of his enslaved forebears once regarded as property, and “to actually learn they had first and last names. “It means a lot to me to walk where they walked, taking pictures of the water, (thinking) this is what they saw… To walk over there and reflect on the fact she (Anna) lived there, to just be able to stand in that location was very powerful.” Inigoes, that is where my ancestors for the most part were,” Alexander said. ![]() 3, 2023, descendants of ancestors enslaved by the Jesuit order at plantations in Maryland during the 1700s and 1800s gathered together in Southern Maryland to connect with long separated family members and to retrace the lives of their forebears, visiting the sites where they once lived in bondage. Inigoes plantation where she once lived, joining other descendants participating in the Reclamation Project’s Southern Maryland GU272 – Jesuit Enslaved Descendant Gathering. 1, Alexander – the great-great-great-grandson of Anna Mahoney Jones – made an emotional visit to the site of the St. It included Jeremy Alexander, who when he found out in 2016 about his family’s connection to slavery and the Jesuits, was sitting at his desk at work at Georgetown University, the institution connected to the story of his ancestors’ bondage and separation and their descendants’ ultimate reunion. That book also weaves the story of the descendants of Anna and Louisa Mahoney and how their ancestors clung to their Catholic faith in Louisiana and Maryland and passed on their faith to generations of their family. (Catholic Standard photo by Mihoko Owada) inigoes, Maryland, Jeremy Alexander shows a rosary that he always carries with him, a sign of the deep Catholic faith that his ancestors passed onto him and other descendants. Inigoes plantation, encouraged the enslaved people there to run and avoid capture by the slave traders.ĭuring a Sept. While Anna and her children were forcibly taken to Louisiana, Louisa was able to remain in Maryland, because she hid in the woods after a sympathetic Jesuit priest, Father Joseph Carbery who managed the St. Swarns – “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church” – tells the story of Anna Mahoney Jones and her sister Louisa Mahoney Mason, beloved siblings forever separated by that sale. The new Random House book by New York Times writer Rachel L. Inigoes plantation in Southern Maryland and were relocated to a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana as part of the infamous 1838 sale of 272 enslaved men, women and children by the Maryland Society of Jesus that helped ensure the financial survival of the Jesuits’ Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. ![]() He came 185 years after his enslaved ancestor Anna Mahoney Jones and her two young children, Arnold and Louisa, were forced to leave the St. ![]() ![]() On a journey to connect with his family’s past, Jeremy Alexander had come to St.
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