Category: News
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Georgetown Slavery Archive Provides Educational Outreach Events, Opportunities
Reaching out to the Georgetown community, the public and descendants through events, lectures and panel presentations – is a major part of the work of the Georgetown Slavery…
November 19, 2020
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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship
A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave.…
August 20, 2020
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History of Enslavement Project to Create Common Database for Universities
A project designed to create a better understanding of the “lived reality of bondage at institutions of higher education” will be created by Georgetown and two other universities…
August 3, 2020
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Transcription Event for Georgetown Slavery Archive Honors DC Emancipation Day
More than 100 Georgetown students, staff, faculty, alumni and descendants of individuals enslaved and sold by the Maryland Province of Jesuits in 1838 participated in a weeklong…
May 8, 2020
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Maryland Province and Georgetown Enhance Access to Archives with New Archivist
The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus is ensuring that the Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus (MPA), most of which is housed at Georgetown, will…
January 15, 2020
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New Undergrad Course Examines University’s Historical Connection to Slavery
History professor Adam Rothman is teaching an undergraduate course designed to examine the university’s historical connections to slavery, that connection’s legacy and efforts…
November 26, 2019