My Ancestors Were Enslaved by Georgetown University – The Untold Story
I was told my ancestors may have been enslaved by Georgetown University, so I flew to DC and visited the university archives.
The Jesuit Priests and founders of Georgetown University enslaved and then sold over 272 people to prevent the university from going bankrupt. This included generations of my ancestors. Children were separated from their mothers, and men from their wives and shipped off to New Orleans.
Dr. A'isha La'Don Abdul Rahman | PhD · MLIS
Archivist · Genealogist · Sierra Leone Dual Citizen
Helping African Americans find where they come from,
reclaim what was taken, and build a life rooted in ancestry.
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