New York Times writer Ms. Rachel Swarns moderates a conversation with Dr. Marcia Chatelain. Chatelain is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University, a member of the Working Group on Georgetown’s History with Slavery and author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration.

This in-depth conversation will explore Georgetown University’s slave past. In 1838, the school’s Jesuit owners profited from the sale of over 272 slaves. This session will frame a larger conversation about slavery in the District of Columbia, consider Georgetown University’s role in the slave trade and reveal the ways in which the institution is attempting to atone.

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Executive Office of the Mayor | Humanities Council of Washington, DC | Association for the Study of African American Life and History | American Historical Association | Eastern Market