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COURTESY/PRESIDENT JOHN J. DEGIOIA

University Recognizes Interim Name Changes

By Syed Humza Moinuddin December 13, 2015

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation held a ceremony and reception to recognize the interim naming of Freedom Hall and Remembrance...

Working Group on Slavery Pens Prospectus

By Syed Humza Moinuddin November 25, 2015

The Georgetown Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation released a pamphlet addressing the history of the university’s relationship with slavery and its plans to foster dialogue with the student...

QUALLEN: Slavery Inextricably Tied To Georgetowns Growth

QUALLEN: Slavery Inextricably Tied To Georgetown’s Growth

By Matthew Quallen October 23, 2015

The facts of the sale are well known: In 1838, Thomas F. Mulledy and William McSherry, then the president of Georgetown, sold 272 Jesuit-owned slaves south. The sale was vicious and controversial. Mulledy,...

QUALLEN: Jesuit Ideals Facing the Slave Trade

By Matthew Quallen January 16, 2015

In 1838, Thomas Mulledy and the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves, in part to pay building debts at the schools they had established, including Georgetown. But what would happen next? The sale came following...

QUALLEN: Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading

QUALLEN: Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading

By Matthew Quallen September 26, 2014

Thomas Mulledy and the Jesuits had a problem. Actually, they had hundreds of them: Across 12,000 acres, 272 slaves toiled to feed the sprawling plantation system upon which the Maryland Jesuits built their...

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