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The District of Columbia to the people of the United States, or, To such Americans as value their rights, and dare to maintain them. American Anti-Slavery Society. Tremain, Mary (1892). Slavery in the District of Columbia : the policy of Congress and the struggle for abolition. Seminary papers (University of Nebraska.
In 1838, Jesuit priests sold 272 enslaved people who worked on Jesuit plantations in Southern Maryland. Proceeds from the sale were used to pay a portion of Georgetown University's debts. The Georgetown Slavery Archive was established in 2016 to maintain and share materials related to slavery and the 1838 sale.
His views evolved over time and he was a founder of the first anti-slavery society in America and sought to link emancipation to the Revolution. [73] [74] In 2017, the university began the Penn & Slavery Project to explore the connections of its funders, trustees, and faculty to slavery as well as uncover the stories of people enslaved by them.
One of the Maryland Jesuits' institutions, Georgetown College (later known as Georgetown University), also rented slaves. While the school did own a small number of slaves over its early decades, [13] its main relationship with slavery was the leasing of slaves to work on campus, [14] a practice that continued past the 1838 slave sale. [13]
William H. Williams advertisement for his slave-trading service and private jail at the Yellow House" (Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, September 27, 1838) Map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society showing some slave jails in Washington D.C. 1836; the Yellow House was across the street from the site marked as Neal's jail, [1] location covered up with the "Am I not a ...
Georgetown University students voted in favor of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves that the school sold in the 1800s when it was in debt.
This is a list of slave traders working in the District of Columbia from 1776 until 1865, including traders operating in Alexandria, Virginia before the establishment of the District in 1800 and after the retrocession in 1847: James H. Birch, District of Columbia and Alexandria, Va. [1] Jack Brinkley [2]
The university's McCourt School of Public Policy -- which runs a cool $61,200 per year to attend -- has opened the "woke'' apolitical cocoons to cater to students for whom political discourse is ...