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Stock# 44333
Description
Fine later issue of this fascinating broadside Geographical Tree, first published circa 1762.
The map depicts a geographical tree containing Jesuit institutions throughout the earth and in a catalog sent to Rome in 1762. The government of the Jesuits is divided into 5 "Assistancea", which include 39 provinces, 24 Professional Houses, 669 colleges, 61 novitiates, 176 seminars, 335 residences, 223 missions, 22,787 Jesuits, 11,010 of whom are priests.
A more detailed study of this fascinating work is in order.
![(East Florida) [St. Augustine document relating to cruel treatment of enslaved and free persons of color, Native Americans, and other bad behavior by British planters and settlers in British colonial Florida] We present as a grievance the inhumanity of Francis Levett Esquire to his Negroes, particularly his cruelty to a girl named Bess](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/86622.jpg)
