About us
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery. This website is part of Georgetown University's Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative.
It includes archival material about:
- slavery and Georgetown University
- slavery and slave life on the plantations of the Maryland Jesuits
- the 1838 sale of Maryland Jesuit enslaved community by Rev. Thomas Mulledy, S.J.
- the fate of the people who were sold to Louisiana
- the descendants of people owned and sold by the Jesuits of the Maryland Province
- current activities relating to Memory and Reconciliation.
Launched in February 2016, the Georgetown Slavery Archive is a work in progress. We continually update this website as we gather and process material. We are working to create special section of this website devoted to the family histories of descendants. We encourage descendants to get in touch with us to share their knowledge so that we can help tell these stories.
Click here for a list of all the items in this digital archive.
The items in this digital archive collected from the Maryland Province Archives of the Society of Jesus, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University Library, are published here with the permission of the Maryland Province Jesuits.
This project was initiated by the Archives Subgroup of the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. The members of the Archives Subgroup included Professor Adam Rothman, Professor Marcia Chatelain, and Matthew Quallen (SFS '16).
For more information, contact Professor Adam Rothman at ar44 [@] georgetown.edu.
Staff (Academic year 2023-2024)
Dr. Adam Rothman, Georgetown University, Curator
Dr. Elsa Barraza Mendoza, Middlebury College, Associate Curator
Luke Frederick, Georgetown University, Georgetown Slavery Archive Doctoral Fellow
Natascha De Vasconcellos Otoya, Georgetown University, Georgetown Slavery Archive Doctoral Fellow
Clayton Kincade, Georgetown University, Researcher
Past Contributors: Dr. Julia Bernier (Mellon Fellow), Emily Bierman, Dr. Herbert Brewer (Mellon Fellow), Dr. Marcia Chatelain, Fr. David Collins SJ, Ashleigh Corwin, Andrew Davenport, Dr. Andrew Dial (Mellon Fellow) Michael DeFelice, Benjamin Driver, Tom Foley, Jonathan Gibson, Claire Healy, Joy Kang, Catherine Kelly, Aidan Kenney, Dami Kim, Benjamin Lillian, Sabrina Ma, Hillary MacKinlay, Debra Mayfield, Maya Moretta, Sylvia Mullins, Ndeye Ndiaye, Dr. Josiah Osgood, Benjamin Oestericher, Matthew Quallen, Jordan Smith, Molly Thacker, Cooper Wingert, Cory Young
Many thanks to President John J. DeGioia, the Office of the President, the Booth Family Center for Special Collections, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, the Jesuit Plantation Project, the National Archives at Fort Worth, the Georgetown Memory Project, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, Louis Diggs, John LaRue, Yong Lee, Sharon Leon, Josiah Osgood and the Georgetown Classics Department, Melanie Ricketts, and Will Thomas.