Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation / edited by Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothman, Adam, 1971- editor.

Barraza Mendoza, Elsa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Georgetown University--History.

Georgetown University.

Georgetown University--History--Sources.

Jesuits--United States--History.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--United States--History--Sources.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

History.

United States.

Slavery--United States--History--Sources.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--History--Sources.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Reconciliation.

Memory--Social aspects--United States.

Memory.

Memory--Social aspects.

Genre:

Sources.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 330 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume is a collection of essays, articles, and documents intended to introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University's involvement in slavery and recent efforts to confront its troubling past. Georgetown's early history, which is closely tied to that of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in Maryland, is a microcosm of the whole history of American slavery: the entrenchment of chattel slavery in the tobacco economy of the Chesapeake in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the contradictions of liberty and slavery at the founding of the United States; the rise of the domestic slave trade to the cotton and sugar kingdoms of the Deep South in the nineteenth century ; the political conflict over slavery and its overthrow amid civil war, and slavery's persistent legacies of racism and inequality. Georgetown is also emblematic of the complex entanglement of American higher education and religious institutions with slavery. Copious archival materials - literally, "receipts" - document that history down to the sizes of shoes distributed to enslaved people on the Jesuit plantations that subsidized the school. Today, Georgetown's efforts at recovery, repair, and reconciliation are part of a broader contemporary moment of reckoning with that history and its legacies. Universities are uniquely situated to conduct that reckoning in a constructive way through research, teaching, and modeling thoughtful, informed discussion. We hope that this volume will contribute to that effort at Georgetown and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I HISTORY

Essays

1. CRAIG STEVEN WILDER, "War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution"

2. ROBERT EMMETT CURRAN, `"Splendid Poverty': Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1805

1838"

3. ELSA BARRAZA MENDOZA, "Catholic Slave Owners and the Development of Georgetown University's Slave Hiring System, 1792

1862"

4. JAMES M. O'TOOLE, "Passing: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820

1920"

Documents

5. Enslaved People Named in a Deed, 1717

6. A Sermon on the Treatment of Slaves, 1749

7. Edward Queen Petitions for Freedom, 1791

8. Isaac Runs Away from Georgetown College, 1814

9. A Jesuit Overseer Calculates the Cost of Slave Labor, 1815

10. Baptism of Sylvester Greenleaf at Newtown, 1819

11. Fr. James Ryder, SJ, Criticizes Abolitionism, 1835

12. The Society of Jesus Sets Conditions on the Sale of the Maryland Slaves, 1836

13. Articles of Agreement between Thomas Mulledy, Henry Johnson, and Jesse Batey, 1838

14. A Jesuit Priest Witnesses Anguish at Newtown, 1838

15. Bill of Sale for Len, 1843

16. A Jesuit Priest Reports on the Fate of the Ex-Jesuit Enslaved Community in Louisiana, 1848

17. Aaron Edmonson, the Last Enslaved Worker at Georgetown, 1859-62

18. Labor Contract at West Oak Plantation, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, 1865

19. Photograph of Frank Campbell, ca. 1900

pt. II MEMORY AND RECONCILIATION

20. IRA BERLIN, "American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice"

21. TA-NEHISI COATES, "The Case for Reparations"

22. ALONDRA NELSON, "The Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome"

The Working Group

23. MATTHEW QUALLEN, "Slavery's Remnants, Buried and Overlooked"

24. TOBY HUNG, "Student Activists Sit in outside DeGioia's Office"

25. "Report of the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to the President of Georgetown University"

26. JAMES MARTIN, SJ, "How Georgetown Is Coming to Terms with Slavery in Its Past"

The GU272 Descendants

27. RACHEL L. SWARNS, "272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?"

28. RACHEL L. SWARNS AND SONA PATEL, "`A Million Questions' from Descendants of Slaves Sold to Aid Georgetown"

29. TERRY L. JONES, "Louisiana Families Dig into Their History, Find They Are Descendants of Slaves Sold by Georgetown University"

30. CHERYLLYN BRANCHE, "My Family's Story in Georgetown's Slave Past"

31. RICK BOYD, "Many in Slave Sale Cited by Georgetown Toiled in Southern Md."

Reconciliation And Reparation

32. Remarks of Sandra Green Thomas at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope

33. Remarks of Fr. Timothy Kesicki, SJ, at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope

34. TERRENCE MCCOY, "Her Ancestors Were Georgetown's Slaves. Now, at Age 63, She's Enrolled There

-as a College Freshman"

35. MARC PARRY, "A New Path to Atonement"

36. JESUS A. RODRIGUEZ, "This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America"

37. JAVON PRICE, "Changing Perceptions on the GU272 Referendum".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781647120962

1647120969

OCLC:

1223014166