In the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention and generous praise. Since the student newspaper jolted the campus with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to stave off bankruptcy for the college, Georgetown has honored campus…
Georgetown U.’s Road to Slavery Reparations Was Paved With Good Intentions, Leading to a Can of Worms
Georgetown Exploited the Economy of Slavery Long After Selling Its Own Slaves
It would be wrong to assume that after the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 slaves to Louisiana planters in 1838, slavery came to an end at Georgetown College. It’s likely that hundreds of slaves worked at the college, and on the Jesuits’ six plantations in southern Maryland, who are not recorded as property of the religious…
Biden’s New Policy Funds China’s Military, Supports Slavery, Achieves Nothing
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary Recently the Biden administration issued new answers for Americans invested in Chinese companies with direct ties to Beijing’s military. Previously, U.S. policy was that Americans were forbidden to invest in companies included in a “blacklist” of Chinese companies directly involved in China’s military, and in producing applications used by…
Harvard Repatriations and the Responsibility of Guilt
Commentary Harvard University is the latest of America’s elite colleges to establish a fund to redress the burden of guilt it says it bears for the legacy of slavery. In doing so, it joins a consortium of 50 other colleges that pledged to address the stain of slavery and the role it played in the…
How Frederick Douglass Summoned Faith and Conviction to Spearhead the Abolitionist Movement
In 1838, a Maryland slave named Frederick Bailey, age 20, escaped from bondage, making use of the recently constructed Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. By rail, Frederick effected his flight in only one day. “A new world had opened upon me,” he wrote later, recalling the moment he first stood upon free soil. “If life…
Return Thomas Jefferson Statues to Their Rightful Place
Commentary On Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, we should take our cue from the Tulsa Star, a now-defunct black newspaper. Its masthead from 1920 included statements of religious and political faith, including a paraphrase from the Declaration of Independence: “‘All men are born equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights which are life, liberty and the pursuit…
The True Story of 1619 and America’s Origins
Commentary In the fall of 2019, The New York Times released a special edition of their magazine highlighting what they claim was the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in the territory that would later become the United States of America. The New York Times sought to completely alter the story of America’s past,…
Are Academic Freedom and Diversity on a Collision Course?
Commentary A report issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom at the University of Ottawa has been framed in the media as a win for professors and a loss for students. Indeed, the committee states that “there is no right not to feel offended since academic freedom protects controversial and hurtful statements.” Its members also oppose…
Gen. Lee: The Importance of Preserving American History
September 28, 2021
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Commentary Earlier this month, a 21-foot-tall bronze statue of Robert E. Lee—perhaps the most famous monument to the Confederate general—was removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Supporters of the statue’s removal, including Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), hailed the event as a triumph for racial justice. The left has decided that Lee, the most…
The Anti-Slavery Heritage of the Constitution
Commentary This Constitution Day, Sept. 17, marks the 234th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution in 1787. Since that day, America has extended human rights and liberties to a larger and more diverse people than ever in the history of the world. Even s0, the Constitution is routinely attacked as being racist, pro-slavery, or…
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