Co-Director Danielle Harrison and Research Coordinator Kelly Schmidt speak to Angela Pancella of St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis about the work of the SHMR project.

Peter Hawkins was the first child born into slavery at the Jesuits’ St. Stanislaus Novitiate and Farm in Florissant, Missouri, and the last formerly-enslaved person to leave the seminary after emancipation.

Members of the Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation (SHMR) team spoke at the Catholic Research Resources Alliance’s virtual annual meeting about the lives of people enslaved to members of the Society of Jesus and of the Catholic Church; the impact of this shared history upon archives and modern reconciliation efforts; and contemporary work to facilitate conversations between Jesuits and Descendants of people they held in bondage.

Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis of the Jesuitical podcast from America Media interview SHMR project members about the lives of the enslaved people owned by the Jesuits in the Midwest, how they are working with Descendants and the meaning of reconciliation.

America Magazine Contributor Sean Salai, SJ, interviewed the SHMR team on the project and its efforts to reach out to descendants of people enslaved to the Jesuits.

Suzanne Koziatek of The Belleville Messenger interviewed SHMR Project team members about Jesuit slaveholding in Missouri and in Kaskaskia, Illinois, as well as the project’s efforts to connect with descendants of people enslaved to the Jesuits who may now reside in Illinois.