Georgetown Memory Project News Today

BU Alum D. Brenton Simons heads American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society

Georgetown University faces scrutiny for its involvement in a historic slave sale. Students seek reparations and reconciliation. $27 million funding announced.

A new collaborative project called 10 Million Names, spearheaded by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and American Ancestors, is seeking to identify and name each one of those enslaved people.

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

“Dearest brothers and sisters in Jesus, the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” Cardinal Wilton Gregory said from the altar at Mount Calvary Catholic Church Sunday morning. “Surely that scriptural

Some of the worshippers are looking into whether their ancestors were among the 272 enslaved people sold to save Georgetown University from bankrupcy in the 1800s.

Richard Cellini discusses how his team is approaching the work of researching individuals of African and Native American descent who were enslaved by Harvard leaders and labored on Harvard’s campus.

We can’t bear to come from nothing. We come from the dead, from our dead, in whatever mysterious ways we imagine that...

<p>Historian Blair Kelley and NYT writer Rachel Swarns discuss the archival ads placed by the newly emancipated to locate family members, and how those fill in the gaps for descendants seeking to assemble family histories. </p>

Old newspaper ads are serving as a window into the hopes and histories of hundreds of individuals who were newly emancipated.