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Noah Taylor

Setting Paths for Reconciliation

By Editorial Board September 9, 2016

With President John J. DeGioia’s remarks in Gaston Hall on Sept. 2, Georgetown is beginning to undertake a new phase of efforts to confront its history with one of America’s original sins: slavery....

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Descendants of 272 React to Reparations

By Ian Scoville September 9, 2016

A group of descendants of the 272 slaves whose sale in 1838 benefitted Georgetown University is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation in partnership with the university and the Jesuits of Maryland...

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Hours after the release of the report by the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation, President DeGioia gave an address to discuss how the administration would take steps to acknowledge the university’s slaveholding past and its debt to the descendants.

Georgetown Seeks to Make Amends for 272

By Ian Scoville September 2, 2016

Georgetown will undertake a series of efforts in order to reconcile with its slaveholding past, including providing descendants of the 272 slaves whose sale in 1838 benefitted the university an advantage...

Noah Taylor

Our Closing Words

By Editorial Board April 29, 2016

Throughout the 2015-16 academic year, the Georgetown community saw a range of issues sparking activism and dialogue across campus. From continuing efforts to memorialize the university’s history...

Remember the 272

By Opinion Editor April 19, 2016

Georgetown students woke up to a front-page article in Sunday’s New York Times delving into the history behind the 1838 Georgetown sale of 272 slaves. In many ways, the article was a necessary jolt for...

Teach-In Looks to Address Legacy of Slavery

Teach-In Looks to Address Legacy of Slavery

By Owen Eagan December 4, 2015

The Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation held a teach-in event focusing on Georgetown’s relationship with slavery and announcing the implementation of Freedom and Remembrance Grants...

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Demonstrators Address Demands to University

By Ashwin Puri November 13, 2015

"What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now." Black student activists led around 250 students, faculty and community members in a demonstration in Red Square last night to express solidarity with...

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,...

Justice Can’t Wait for Working Groups

Justice Can’t Wait for Working Groups

By Adam Talbot October 2, 2015

Here are a couple serious questions for the newly minted Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation: What new information could possibly come to light on the nature of slavery that will change...

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Mulledy Hall, whose name retention has sparked controversy, is one of the components of the Former Jesuit Residence, pictured.

Group to Address Slavery, Memory

By Toby Hung September 29, 2015

In response to the recent dialogue sparked by the naming of Mulledy Hall, University President John J. DeGioia has charged a working group of faculty, students and alumni to discuss the memorialization...

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The Life of Pebbles

By Matthew Quallen September 25, 2015

In the coming months, the university will open a campus-wide dialogue on its relationship with racism and slavery, which reached its nadir in 1838 when Fr. Thomas Mulledy, S.J., and the Maryland Jesuits...

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