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The letter by Br. Joseph Mobberly to Georgetown's President Giovanni Grassi S.J. portrays the financial loss that would be suffered by the university if they did not sell the Jesuits' enslaved people. Throughout the source, he is actively calculating…

This is a contract is between Mrs. Emily Woolfolk, the owner of West Oak plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, and the freed people on the plantation for wages for the ensuing year. It shows what is expected from both sides and the consequences…

Child labor at Georgetown “Child Labor at Bohemia Plantation, July 1792” is ledger entry that captures a payment from Bohemia farm to hired slaves and people of color. Among those slaves were two children, who the records note as “free Nelly’s 2…

In this podcast conducted in the format of a Radio Show, Georgetown students Juliette Browne (GU '18) and Ndeye Ndiaye (GU '18), address the impact of slavery on the legacy of education inequality and college preparedness in black communities. The…

In this section from his Treatise on Slavery, Br. Joseph Mobberly defends slavery as a lawful, reasonable, and necessary institution. This is a continuation of GSA143.

Leonarde Neale was the president of Georgetown College in 1805. He financially provided provisions for three enslaved people working in the college at the name; named John, Jack and Nace. These provisions included shoes, breeches and a hat.

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…

Reverend Francis Vespre from the Society of Jesus in Rome, records twenty distinct conditions placed on the sale of the people enslaved by the Jesuits. Conditions 1-8 have to do with the religious and family life of the people who are to be sold, and…

In 1810, the courts at Baltimore County certified the freedom of a woman named Sarah, who had previously been enslaved by the Rev. William Pasquet.

Her certificate of freedom describes her as 37 years old, with a yellow complexion, and five feet…

In 1838, Thomas F Mulledy agreed to sell 272 slaves to Louisiana to repay Georgetown’s rising debts. Not even the 1-year-old child, or the feeble 65-year-old was safe from the GU272 Slave Agreement. Two centuries later, the sale became infamous…