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Facing Slavery鈥檚 Legacy at Georgetown University

威尼斯人娱乐场 Building, William G. McGowan Theater
Washington, DC

Adam Rothman, professor of history at Georgetown, discusses the university鈥檚 roots in the slave economy of early America and their implications for today. He describes university efforts to research its history and reach out to descendants of the Maryland Jesuit slave community. Rothman is part of the university鈥檚 Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation. Presented in partnership with the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., as the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Lecture to open the 43rd Annual Conference on D.C. History.