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Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation /

This volume is a collection of essays, articles and documents intended to introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University's involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. Georgetown's early history, which is closely tied to that of the Society of Jesus...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rothman, Adam, 1971- (Editor), Barraza Mendoza, Elsa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Georgetown University > History.
Georgetown University > History > Sources.
Jesuits > United States > History.
Jesuits > United States > History > Sources.
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History > Sources.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > History > Sources.
Racism > United States.
Reconciliation.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • "War and Priests : Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution" / Craig Steven Wilder
  • "Splendid Poverty" : Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland / Robert Emmet Curran
  • "Catholic Slave owners and the Development of Georgetown University's Slave Hiring system, 1792-1862" / Elsa Barraza Mendoza
  • "Passing : Race, Religion, and the Healy Family" / James O'Toole
  • Enslaved people named in a deed, 1717
  • A sermon on the treatment of slaves, 1749
  • Edward Queen petitions for freedom, 1791
  • Isaac runs away from Georgetown College, 1814
  • A Jesuit overseer calculates the cost of slave labor, 1815
  • Baptism of Sylvester Greenleaf at Newtown, 1819
  • Fr. James Ryder, SJ criticizes abolitionism, 1835
  • The Society of Jesus sets conditions on the sale of the Maryland slaves, 1835
  • Articles of Agreement between Thomas Mulledy, Henry Johnson, and Jesse Batey, 1838
  • A Jesuit priest witnesses anguish at Newtown, 1838
  • Bill of sale for Len, 1843
  • A Jesuit priest reports on the fate of the ex-Jesuit enslaved community in Louisiana, 1848
  • Aaron Edmunson, the last enslaved worker at Georgetown, 1859-1862
  • Labor contract at West Oak Plantation, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, 1865
  • Photograph of Frank Campbell, ca. 1900
  • "American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice" / Ira Berlin
  • "The Case for Reparations" / Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • "The Social Life of DNA : Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome" / Alondra Nelson
  • "Slavery's Remnants, Buried and Overlooked" / Matthew Quallen
  • "Student Activists Sit In Outside DeGioia's Office" / Toby Hung
  • "Recommendations to the President" / 3. Report of the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation
  • "How Georgetown is coming to terms with slavery in its past" / James Martin, S.J.
  • "272 slaves were sold to save Georgetown. What does it owe their descendants? / Rachel L. Swarns
  • "A Million questions' from descendants of slaves sold to aid Georgetown" / Rachel L. Swarns and Sona Patel
  • "Louisiana families dig into their history, find they are descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown University" / Terry L. Jones
  • "My Family's Story in Georgetown's Slave Past" / Cheryllyn Branche
  • "Many in slave sale cited by Georgetown toiled in Southern Md." / Rick Boyd
  • Remarks of Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ, at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
  • Remarks of Sandra Green Thomas at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
  • "Her ancestors were Georgetown's slaves. Now, at age 63, she's enrolled there- as a college freshman" / Terrance McCoy
  • "A New Path to Atonement" / Marc Parry
  • "This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America" / Jesús A. Rodríguez
  • "VIEWPOINT: Changing Perceptions on the GU272 Referendum" / Javon Price.