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Georgetown President Offering Provisions for the Enslaved, 1805

Leonarde Neale was the president of Georgetown College in 1805. He financially provided provisions for three enslaved people working in the college at…
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Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation

The items in this collection help us contend with the question of how slavery should be remembered and how reparations for slavery can be pursued,…
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What does reconciliation mean?

It would not be an overstatement to say that as the members of Georgetown University we will forever live in...
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JESUIT INCOME FROM SALE OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN 1838

This balance sheet, compiled by Joseph Zwinge, S.J. in 1909, shows the different sources of income of the Maryland Province in 1838. Of the five main…
"We are in the dark as long as we keep slaves": Br. Joseph Mobberly, S.J. calculates the cost savings from emancipation, February 5, 1815

In this letter to Georgetown President Giovanni Grassi S.J,, Brother Joseph Mobberly, S.J. urges that the Jesuits' enslaved people be sold for a time…
Hiring "servants" at the college, 1805

This entry in the Procurator ledgers of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus indicates that the Jesuits' general fund financed the hire of…