Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation

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Title

Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation

Subject

Slavery--memory
Slavery--Georgetown

Description

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, with particular attention to the reconciliation process at Georgetown.

Creator

Atlantic World, Fall 2020

Collection Items

New York Times article by Rachel Swarns on the search for descendants of the people sold by Georgetown President Thomas Mulledy in 1838. This article highlights Maxine Crump, a great-great-grandaughter of Cornelius Hawkins.

This short film was produced by Georgetown College students Jeanne Bowers, Charlotte Jackson, Keeho Kang, and Meghan Shapiro in FMST-399: Social Justice Documentary, taught by Professor Bernard Cook in the Spring 2019 semester. The short film…

Georgetown Film Studies students explore the parallels between a Jesuit’s unanswered plea and a University’s reconnection with the descendants of slaves it owned, sold, and spurned. With the call for accountability in Father Van de Velde, S.J.’s 1848…

In this short documentary film, students in Professor Adam Rothman's AMST 272 Facing Georgetown's History and Professor Bernie Cook's FMST 399 Social Justice Documentary reflect on a trip they took to Louisiana in March 2018 to meet with members of…

Paul Rochford, "Louisa Mahoney Mason and her family" (2020)
This essay traces the life of Louisa Mahoney Mason and her family. Louisa Mahoney Mason was a member of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community; she remained in Maryland after the 1838 sale. She and her children were the last people held in slavery…

A slave auction in America
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The unifying themes of this podcast are memorialization and reconciliation. In this podcast, Georgetown University and American Studies 272 student Kelly Skeen (GU '18) discusses how Georgetown University has memorialized its historic ties to the…

The resource is a video made by Georgetown students that focuses on the character of Joseph Mobberly and the importance of his name's presence in the building. they use this to bring up the issue of reconciliation. Which is very important for…

This is an article that looks into Georgetown’s history of owning and selling 272 women, men and children in order to save the institution that is now known as Georgetown. It looks into both arguments of reconciliation by monetary funds and a verbal…
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