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…
Georgetown Law Professor Quits Over Anti-Free Speech Environment: ‘I Won’t Live This Way’
A constitutional law professor at Georgetown University said he no longer wants to work at the institution, which had suspended him for months for questioning race and gender criteria used by the Biden administration in its selection of Supreme Court justices. Ilya Shapiro, who was recently permitted to assume his post as executive director of…
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