In a historic step forward to reconcile with Georgetown’s slaveholding history, University President John J. DeGioia met with Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold in ...

The group also said Georgetown should involve the descendants in an oral history project and solicit their input as the university further explores how it will memorialize those sold in the 1838 sale.

Georgetown University first publicly acknowledged the 1838 sales of slaves sell in a New York Times article last spring which featured several descendants, one of whom lived in Baton Rouge.

The Jesuit founders of Georgetown University sold 272 slaves in 1838 to pay school debts. The first photo of those slaves to be found was the great-great-great grandfather of a Charlotte woman.

The impetus to address this chapter in school history began last fall, as Georgetown reopened a building named for former campus president Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, who served from 1829 to 1838 and ...

The 1838 sale — worth about $3.3 million in today’s dollars — was organized by two of Georgetown’s early presidents, both Jesuit priests.

Georgetown University held a ceremony to mark the renaming of two campus buildings: one for Isaac Hawkins, one of 272 enslaved persons sold in 1838 by the Maryland Province of Jesuits to pay off ...

Georgetown University has announced that descendants of 272 slaves, from whose sale the school profited in 1838, will receive "an advantage in the admissions process" as part of a larger effort to ...

Georgetown University announced plans to create a fund that could generate close to $400,000 a year to benefit the descendants of slaves once sold by the university.