GU Slavery Archive

The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown, and slavery. Retweets do not equal endorsement.

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@knowbetterdobet @MikePrestonSun @Patrickqueen_ @derikqueen1 @Georgetown @TMZ_Sports @NFL @steelers @Ravens @PelicansNBA @ESPNNBA @NBA @TerrapinHoops @LSUfootball @baltimoresun We would be happy to help research this. The Queen family has an amazing and important history in Maryland and Louisiana going back centuries.

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New item in the Archive: An interview with Georgetown Law Center student and GU272 descendant Kyla Matthews (L'25) conducted by Lady Nwadike for We Are Georgetown: Celebrating Our Black History @GUAlumni @HoyaBlackAlumni
https://t.co/FxpxhlJQHV

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New item in the Archive: an interview conducted by GU student Andrew Bordea with GU272 descendant Henrietta Pike.
https://t.co/qjIqGQAF3E

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New book from @Georgetown_UP
C. Walker Gollar, "Let Us Go Free": Slavery and Jesuit Universities in America
https://t.co/YOgPi0Gnch

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Insurgent Black Ecologies: Woods, Water, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp, Wednesday, 11/8, at 5:30 in the De La Cruz Gallery.
https://t.co/F9NVAS7AGg

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The Holy Trinity burial records have been digitized and are available online through Digital Georgetown. https://t.co/CaPjgrkxIf

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This was a poignant and memorable event.

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Hoyas Advocating for Slavery Accountability will be holding a Libation Ceremony at the site of the Old College Burial Ground this Sunday, November 5th at 4 pm.

[GU Slavery Archive @GUslavery]

Hoyas Advocating for Slavery Accountability will be holding a Libation Ceremony at the site of the Old College Burial Ground this Sunday, November 5th at 4 pm.

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Thursday, November 2, at 5pm, in Georgetown's Ecumenical Chapel
https://t.co/wl2T2QdaRN

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Among tomorrow's presentations is "Reforming Food Crops, Freedom, and Slavery in the Amazonian Floodplains (1755-1798)" by Manoel Rendeiro Neto

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Join us tomorrow for our first session of the GHSS Reconsidering (Re)construction at @GUHistory featuring @natasha_wheatl, @RosalindParr, Manoel Rendeiro Neto, and myself at 10 a.m. EST. Zoom link: https://t.co/w3GyZKD5J8

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@jessewashington

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"I think not forgetting makes you strong." - John Thompson, I Came As A Shadow.

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Georgetown's de la Cruz Gallery is currently exhibiting a major show of new art by Kara Walker.
https://t.co/uzM8CkwFFz

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Today at 4:30 in ICC 622: Kenan Malik will discuss his new book, Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. https://t.co/2EBrVJcgDN

[Tudor Place @TudorPlace]

Documentary filmmaker and founder of History Before Us, Frederick Murphy, hosts a conversation with descendants of enslaved individuals associated with Tudor Place and other historic sites with a history of enslavement. Register here: https://t.co/x6i0prPEAH

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Kudos to the students who organized this and participated in it.
https://t.co/cYkj5zDA5o

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The CSSL kicked of its Graduate Research Workshop yesterday with a lively discussion of @GUHistory PhD candidate Luke Frederick's paper on slavery and policing in early 19th-century Washington, DC. Interested in attending? Here's the 2023-2024 schedule. https://t.co/E3PDMhSLtZ

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Rachel Swarns will be speaking about her book *The 272* at Georgetown this Thursday, October 5, at 6pm. RSVP to attend using this link.
https://t.co/IZfILikFQp

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The Locating Slavery’s Legacies database (LSLdb) is an initiative to collect information about monuments and memorials linked to slavery, the Civil War, and the Confederacy on American college and university campuses. Learn more about it at LSLdb's webinar on Oct. 4.

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Sign up for the webinar here: https://t.co/E5ZVzCykKm

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On Sept. 19, Georgetown marked the official launch of a new interdisciplinary center that examines the history of slavery and its legacies at the university, in Washington, DC, and in Catholic communities in the U.S. through creative projects, public programs and research.