A Boston-based genealogical organization
and a Georgetown University graduate who
launched a project to trace the family histories
of hundreds of black slaves sold by the Jesuits
who ran the college in 1838 have teamed up to
digitize the information and make it available to
people researching family histories.
The public announcement of what’s known as
the GU272 Memory Project coincides not only
with Juneteenth — the annual observance
of the 1865 announcement of the abolition
of slavery in America — but also with the
anniversary of the 1838 sale of 272 of the more
than 300 slaves the Washington, D.C., college
sold over a five-year period.
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