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 lesson plans for five, forty-minute class periods (Lessons I-V). These lesson plans may be used in conjunction with Georgetown Slavery Archive's curricular units "Slavery and Catholicism" and "Slavery at School."

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gu 272, georgetown: putting a human face on the domestic slave trade, descendants of slaves, slavery system

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional