{"id":5262,"date":"2019-09-03T17:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5262"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:12:30","slug":"september-2019-new-online-collection-of-letters-on-slavery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5262","title":{"rendered":"September 2019: New Online Collection of Letters on Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Rivers, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/people\/christopher-rivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of French at Mount Holyoke College<\/a> in the United States, has launched a new website containing his translations of selected letters on slavery written by Jesuit missionaries. <em>French Jesuit Letters on Slavery: &#8216;No Less an Object of Our Zeal&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0is open-access resource available at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The collection presents Rivers&#8217; translations of late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth letters by Jesuit missionaries written while the men worked in the French slave colonies of the Caribbean. Rivers provides a general introduction to the project as well as more details on his sources at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/introduction-and-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/introduction-and-sources\/<\/a>. He also provides <a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/translators-foreword\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a foreword<\/a> to introduce his approach to the letters and the challenges posed by the translation process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of September 2019, the database by Rivers contains the following letters<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/letter-from-fr-breban-s-j-19-january-1732\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Fr. Br\u00e9ban, S. J. (19 January 1732)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/letter-from-fr-jean-mongin-missionary-in-america-to-a-person-of-quality-from-languedoc-written-on-the-island-of-saint-christopher-may-1682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Fr. Jean Mongin, missionary in America, to a person of quality from Languedoc, written on the Island of Saint Christopher (May 1682)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/letter-from-fr-margat-missionary-of-the-society-of-jesus-to-fr-of-the-same-society-27-february-1725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Fr. Margat, missionary of the Society of Jesus, to Fr. ***, of the same Society (27 February 1725)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/letter-from-fr-margat-missionary-of-the-society-of-jesus-to-fr-de-la-neuville-of-the-same-society-procurator-of-the-missions-in-america-2-february-1729\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Fr. Margat, Missionary of the Society of Jesus, to Fr. de la Neuville, of the same Society, Procurator of the Missions in America (2 February 1729)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com\/letter-from-fr-margat-missionary-of-the-society-of-jesus-to-the-procurator-general-of-the-missions-of-the-same-society-in-the-islands-of-america-20-july-1743\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Fr. Margat, missionary of the Society of Jesus, to the Procurator General of the missions of the same Society in the Islands of America (20 July 1743)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Rivers, a professor of French at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, has launched a new website containing his translations of selected letters on slavery written by Jesuit missionaries. French Jesuit Letters on Slavery: &#8216;No Less an Object of Our Zeal&#8217;\u00a0is open-access resource available at\u00a0https:\/\/jesuitlettersonslavery.wordpress.com. &nbsp; The collection presents Rivers&#8217; translations of late-seventeenth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5265,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5262","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5268,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5262\/revisions\/5268"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}