First page of the GU272 Bill of Sale from 1838. (Photo courtesy of Georgetown) Through the project, genealogists have discovered 8,425 descendants of enslaved people sold in 1838. Close to half of ...

The announcement from President John DeGioia came as Georgetown released a report calling on its leaders to offer a formal apology for the university's participation in the slave trade. In 1838 ...

held discussions with the Georgetown community, and reached out to the descendants of slaves sold in the 1838 sale. The sale of 272 slaves owned by the Maryland Province of Jesuits was organized ...

The revenue from the 1838 sale, which amounts to about $500,000 today, was used to sustain the school financially and pay off its debt. Now, some Georgetown students are trying to institute a ...

committed to raise money to preserve Georgetown University—the sale of 272 men, women and children who had been the “property” of the Maryland Province in 1838 to plantations in Louisiana ...

By DaVita RobinsonValerie White and Maxine Crump Video by Alexander Stockton transcript In 1838, Georgetown University sold 272 people to Louisiana to save the university from bankruptcy.

The Georgetown Memory Project, an independent group, is currently working to identify descendants of those sold in 1838 to fund Georgetown. Richard Cellini, the founder of that project ...

151; -- 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 ...

the first enslaved man listed in the 1838 sale. “The university itself owes its existence to this history,” Adam Rothman, a historian at Georgetown and a member of a university working group ...

In 1838, Georgetown University fell on hard times. The school was in debt and in danger of closing. That's when the founders—two Jesuit priests—did the unthinkable. In 1838, Georgetown ...

1838, showed that Maryland Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to the owners of Louisiana plantations. The Jesuits used the proceeds to benefit then-Georgetown College. But the website includes a ...