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Facing Georgetown's History - A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (Hardcover)
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Facing Georgetown's History - A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation (Hardcover)
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A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of
the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at
Georgetown University and among the Maryland Jesuits Georgetown
University's early history, closely tied to that of the Society of
Jesus in Maryland, is a microcosm of the 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. It is
also emblematic of the complex entanglement of American higher
education and religious institutions with slavery. Important
primary sources drawn from the university's and the Maryland
Jesuits' archives document Georgetown's tangled history with
slavery, down to the sizes of shoes distributed to enslaved people
on the Jesuit plantations that subsidized the school. The volume
also includes scholarship on Jesuit slaveholding in Maryland and at
Georgetown, news coverage of the university's relationship with
slavery, and reflections from descendants of the people owned and
sold by the Maryland Jesuits. These essays, articles, and documents
introduce readers to the history of Georgetown's involvement in
slavery and recent efforts to confront this troubling past. Current
efforts at recovery, repair, and reconciliation are part of a
broader contemporary moment of reckoning with American history and
its legacies. This reader traces Georgetown's "Slavery, Memory, and
Reconciliation Initiative" and the role of universities, which are
uniquely situated to conduct that reckoning in a constructive way
through research, teaching, and modeling thoughtful, informed
discussion.
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