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Summer 2012 M A R Y L A N D Historical Magazine In this issue . A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Paul H. Mattingly All for a Sword: The Military Treason Trial of Sarah Hutchins by Jonathan W. White Playing Fair: The Fight for Interracial Athletics in Baltimore by Sara Patenaude Portfolio: From Basement to Blog Maryland History Bibliography 2011: A Selected List Anne S. K. Turkos and Jeff Korman, compilers The Journal of the Maryland Historical Society Friends of the Press of the Maryland Historical Society The Publications Committee continues its stalwart support of Maryland Historical Society books with the funding of two titles during this season of com- memorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the bicentennial of the War of 1812. Ross J. Kelbaugh, Maryland’s Civil War Pho- tographs: The Sesquicentennial Collection, is a vast photographic record of the people, places, and events surrounding the war. It is also the largest collection of original Maryland-related Civil War photographs ever published. Donald R. Hickey’s 187 Things You Should Know About the War of 1812 is a concise and informative introduction to the often complex issues surrounding that conflict, presented in an engaging question-and- answer format. These books are numbers five and six of the Friends of the Press titles, continuing the society’s mission to bring forth the best new Maryland history. We invite you to become a supporter, to follow the path first laid out with the society’s founding in 1844. Help us fill in the unknown pages of Maryland’s past for future generations. Become, quite literally, an im- portant part of Maryland history. If you would like to make a tax-deductible gift to the Friends of the Press, please direct your gift to Development, Maryland His- torical Society, 201 W. Monument Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201. For additional information on MdHS publications, contact Patricia Dockman Anderson, Editor, 410-685-3750 x317, or [email protected]. Maryland Historical Society Founded 1844 Officers Thomas A. Collier, Chairman Cecil E. Flamer, Treasurer Burton K. Kummerow, President Louise Lake Hayman, Vice President Alex. G. Fisher, Vice President Lynn Springer Roberts, Vice President James W. Constable, Secretary Richard C. Tilghman Jr., Vice President Board of Trustees Gregory H. Barnhill H. Thomas Howell Immediate Past Chairman Robert G. Bolton Frederick M. Hudson Robert R. Neall H. Clay Braswell Jr. M. Willis Macgill Chairmen Emeriti Francis J. Carey III George S. Malouf Jr. Jack S. Griswold Robert M. Cheston Jr. Cleaveland D. Miller Barbara P. Katz Virginia Clagett Jayne H. Plank Stanard T. Klinefelter Russell C. Dashiell Jr. Brien Poffenberger Henry Hodges Stansbury Sandra R. Flax George S. Rich Brian W. Hammock David P. Scheffenacker Jr. Louis G. Hecht Jacqueline Smelkinson Ex-Officio Trustees The Hon. John P. Sarbanes The Hon. David R. Craig The Hon. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Representative: William B. Gilmore II Allender Sybert, Maryland Genealogical Society The Hon. Kevin Kamenetz, Representative: Richard Parsons The Maryland Historical Magazine Patricia Dockman Anderson, Editor Dustin Meeker, Assistant Editor Matthew Hetrick, Associate Editor Christopher T. George, Donna B. Shear, Jennifer A. Ferretti, Editorial Associates Editorial Board H. Thomas Howell, Chair Jean H. Baker; Robert J. Brugger; Deborah Cardin; Lois Green Carr; Suzanne E. Chapelle; Marilyn Davis; Toby L. Ditz; Jack G. Goellner; Elizabeth Grey; Norvell E. Miller III; Charles W. Mitchell; Edward C. Papenfuse; Lawrence Peskin; Jean B. Russo; James F. Schneider; David S. Thaler; Bertram Wyatt-Brown The Maryland Historical Magazine welcomes submissions from authors and letters to the editor. Letters may be edited for space and clarity. All articles will be acknowledged, but only those accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope will be returned. Submissions should be printed or typed manuscript. Address Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201. Include name, address, and daytime telephone number. Once accepted, articles should be on CDS (MS Word or PC convertible format), or may be emailed to [email protected]. The guidelines for contributors are available on our website at www.mdhs.org. ISSN 0025-4258 © 2012 by the Maryland Historical Society. Published quarterly as a benefit of membership in the Maryland Historical Society, spring, summer, fall, and winter. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and/or America: History and Life. Periodicals postage paid at Baltimore, Maryland, and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Please send address changes to the Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Printed by The Sheridan Press, Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331. M A R Y L A N D Historical Magazine VOLUME 107, NO. 2 (Summer 2012) CONTENTS A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth-Century Europe ................................................................. 141 PAUL H. MATTINGLY All for a Sword: The Military Treason Trial of Sarah Hutchins ............................................155 JONATHAN W. WHITE Playing Fair: The Fight for Interracial Athletics in Baltimore ...............................................175 SARA PATENAUDE Portfolio: From Basement to Blog ............................................................................................203 Maryland History Bibliography, 2011: A Selected List ............................................................217 ANNE S. K. TURKOS and JEFF KORMAN, compilers Book Reviews ..............................................................................................................................234 McWilliams, Annapolis, A City on the Severn: A History, by Charles R. Foy Frank and Kilbride, Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown, by Jean H. Baker Stanwood, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, by Bryan Rindfleisch Spring, With Zeal and Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775 –1783, and Tonsetic, 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War, by Joseph-James Ahern Bernstein, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, by Amanda Lea Miracle Miner, A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862, by Christopher Cumo Lee, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, by Amanda Quackenbush Guidotti Grivno, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790– 1860, by Andrew J. Forney Dobak, Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867, by Brian Dunne O’Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order, by Stephen W. Eldridge Pace, Halls of Honor: College Men in the Old South, by F. Evan Nooe Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis, by S. Chandler Lighty Rable, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War, by Elizabeth Georgian Butchart, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861–1876, by Amy Feely Morsman Loveman, No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere Since 1776, by John H. Barnhill Lassiter and Crespino, eds., The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, by Robert Krause Letters to the Editor ....................................................................................................................265 Cover Maryland Chintz-Appliquéd and Pieced Quilt, c.1835. Catherine Mitchell (1775–1847) stitched this quilt at Mitchell’s Garden on the Choptank River, Dorchester County. Patterned after English decorative bed coverings, the style was exceptionally popular in the antebellum South. Fabrics often included bits of expensive imported chintz, plain and printed cottons. The pieced central square and repetitive border motifs are seen frequently in Maryland quilts. Mitchell’s descendants donated the quilt to the Maryland Historical Society in the mid-twentieth century with the following note: “Made by Catherine Mitchell, born about 1775, died 1847. Her last quilt finished after she was seventy years of age.” (Maryland Historical Society, 1950.56.1.) A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth-Century Europe 141 A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth-Century Europe PAUL H. MATTINGLY he Jesuit contribution to the history of Maryland began long before the colony’s actual founders departed England’s shores in 1633, and within Calvert’s proprietary Jesuits sustained themselves through resources that Textended far beyond the settlement’s legal boundaries. Their influence in Maryland drew great energy from a preoccupation with and resistance to Britain’s comman- deering of Roman Catholic property and spiritual authority in the sixteenth century. Seminaries and colleges established to train individuals, missionaries, and ordinary leaders in the re-conquest of the British Isles and its possessions had far-reaching global implications. Not only did the Jesuit network knit together a chain of schools in the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy, it produced a training history that became the basis of a formidable influence on the imperial designs of all the involved countries. The monetary investment in the Maryland Dove, plus payment for a multitude of servants on that and later ships, enabled Jesuits to become large landowners. With their spiritual influence, Maryland Jesuits wove their Chesapeake outpost into a transatlantic network that resisted British anti-Catholic