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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Paul Rochford, "Louisa Mahoney Mason"
This essay traces the life of Louisa Mahoney Mason and her family. Louisa Mahoney Mason was a member of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community; she remained in Maryland after the 1838 sale. She and her children were the last people held...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive the Price of Georgetown :A Walking Tour
Numerous sites with deep ties to slavery populate Georgetown University's campus and the surrounding neighborhoods. This is a virtual "walking tour" of sites related to the history of slavery on and nearby Georgetown's campus.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive 272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown
New York Times article by Rachel Swarns on the search for descendants of the people sold by Georgetown President Thomas Mulledy in 1838. This article highlights Maxine Crump, a great-great-grandaughter of Cornelius Hawkins.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive a Million Questions' From Descendants
New York Times reporters Rachel Swarns and Sona Patel profile several descendants of people sold by Georgetown President Thomas Mulledy SJ in 1838.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive "Crump: It's Been There All Our Lives"
Hoya reporter Kshithij Shrinath interviews Maxine Crump, a descendant of Cornelius Hawkins, who was sold by Georgetown President Thomas Mulledy SJ in 1838.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Bayonne Johnson
Hoya reporter Kshithij Shrinath interviews Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, a descendant of Nace and Biby Butler a husband and wife who were sold by Georgetown President Thomas Mulledy SJ in 1838. Ms. Bayonne-Johnson was the first person to...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive "Jesuit Slaves in the Family"
Patricia Bayonne-Johnson's account of her discovery that the Jesuits of the Maryland Province owned her great-great-grandparents Nace and Biby Butler and sold them to Louisiana.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Louisiana Families Dig Into Their History
This article in the Baton Rouge Advocate focuses on descendants of slaves and their research into their family histories.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive I Know That My Bennett Ancestors
Chapter two of Louis Diggs, Surviving in America: Histories of 7 Black Communities in Baltimore County, Maryland (Uptown Press, 2002), includes fascinating interviews with African Americans in Granite, Maryland, including several...
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Georgetown: Putting a Human Face on the Domestic Slave Trade
This unit will introduce students to the history of the domestic slave trade through the lens of the "GU272," the community of people sold south by the Maryland Jesuits in 1838 to help finance Georgetown College. This unit consists of...
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Georgetown University: Slavery and Catholicism
This unit teaches students about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. This unit consists of lesson plans for five, forty-minute class periods. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of the...
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Georgetown University: Slavery and Catholicism
This unit teaches young scholars about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. This unit consists of lesson plans for five, forty-minute class periods. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of...
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Georgetown University: Slavery at School
This unit invites students to learn about the history of slavery at select schools in the United States and how these schools taught the "science" of racial inferiority. The goal is for students to work in collaborative groups to produce...
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Georgetown University: Slavery at School
This unit teaches young scholars about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of the Catholic Church and Catholics' contradictory roles during the age of...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Since Last We Met
The successors of slave-owning Jesuits and the ancestors of those they owned are coming back together in 2017 in the spirit of penance and forgiveness. In this podcast, Georgetown University student Aidan Kenney deals with the last time...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Humanizing the Narrative the Queen Family
In this podcast, Georgetown University American Studies students Megan Howell and Catherine Kelly explore Georgetown's history with the institution of slavery. To humanize this narrative, they have chosen to focus on this history through...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Frank Campbell's Photograph
On March 12, 2017, the New York Times published the only known photograph of a Georgetown University slave sold to Louisiana in the infamous 1838 sale. The man in the photograph, Frank Campbell, lived a long and fascinating life. In this...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Education Across Generations
In this podcast, Georgetown American Studies major Jenna Clifford (GU '18) chats with descendant and leader of the GU272 Descendants Association, Sandra Green Thomas, about her family history and its relationship to the 1838 sale of 272...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Buildings and Memorials
The unifying themes of this podcast are memorialization and reconciliation. In this podcast, Georgetown University and American Studies student Kelly Skeen discusses how Georgetown University has memorialized its historic ties to the...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Black Students at Georgetown
In this podcast conducted in the format of a Radio Show, Georgetown students Juliette Browne (GU '18) and Ndeye Ndiaye (GU '18), address the impact of slavery on the legacy of education inequality and college preparedness in black...
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Gallery
This gallery contains a selection of items from the Georgetown Slavery Archive.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Sale of Maryland Jesuit's Enslaved
These archival materials relate to the sale of 272 men, women, and children by Rev. Thomas Mulledy in 1838 to Louisiana.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Slavery in the Maryland Province
This is a collection of documents related to slavery in the Maryland Province.
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Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Slavery at Georgetown College
These historical documents are related to slavery at Georgetown College.