Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society

GU272 Memory Project

Author(s):	New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Citation:	New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.

Section on webpage:	Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets:	Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation:	In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.

Author(s):	New England Historic Genealogical Society
Date:
Publication:
Citation:	New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.

Section on webpage:	Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets:	Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation:	In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.