This work brings together in one place primary material dealing with the issue of American Catholics and slavery. The anthology is organized in three parts. Eac

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to e

Examines the Roman Catholic opinion of slavery in the United States. Discusses the Catholic tradition, Catholics and the slave system, abolitionism, and the div

Becoming What We Are is a collection of essays and reviews written in the last decade by the late Jude Dougherty, which covey a perspective on contemporary even