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January 21st, 2018, 02:40 PM | #1171 |
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From the Washington Post
Today, Georgetown University is a thriving, elite university with a substantial endowment. But that wasn't always the case.
In 1838, the school was struggling and couldn't pay their bills. As a solution, the school sold off 272 slaves and used the money to pay off its debts. In the time since, the school has made attempts to address its history with formal apologies, the renaming of buildings, admission consideration, and help with college readiness, genealogy, memorials and reunion projects. As you may suspect, this isn't good enough for some people. There's a group out there called the Issac Hawkins Legacy Group which is made up of supposed descendants from these 272 slaves. Their council, Georgia Goslee, says they do not believe Georgetown has fully atoned for the wealth it unjustly accumulated off the back of unpaid slave labor. The group, which Goslee said includes 200 people, has asked for a direct benefit for descendants. Dee Taylor, a descendant of Isaac Hawkins, a 65-year-old slave whose name was first on the bill of sale from 1838, said she appreciates the symbolic gestures the school has taken. “But in my heart, deep down, I don’t feel whole,” she said. “I believe Georgetown has the means to do much more.” So, 7 or 8 generations later the school is supposed to pay off these descendants. What about the generations in between? What about future generations? Are they able to claim the same hardship 50 years from now? In any court I've ever heard of, damages are awarded based on demonstrable proof the victim has been directly harmed. Rather than embracing the outreach programs the university proposes, something that could enhance education and actually help future generations improve their standard of living, it seems they'd rather just be dissatisfied that they aren't getting money. I've heard of sins of the father, but sins of the great great great great great great grandfather is ridiculous. Learn to say "no" because if you don't then no matter how long in the past a transgression was, someone is going to come along and demand they be paid.
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It is not fair to judge people of the past by today's standards of morality. Slavery was widespread at the dawn of our history and persists, albeit illegally, to this day. If it were up to me, the slaves freed after our civil war would have received compensation of at least land, livestock, and farm implements, but they weren't. Moreover, every human being alive today probably has slaves in their ancestry. I know African Americans who are adamant that the single biggest obstacle holding back their communities today is the attitude that they are owed something because their ancestors were slaves. |
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We British used to trade in slaves and we got rich from it. We cannot deny it and we do not try to. We were also the first ones to abolish the slave trade on humanitarian and moral grounds and we used brute force to suppress this trade when our European neighbours thought they would like to continue with it.* People do change and moral views do evolve, hopefully for the better. But while it is fair to point out that people saw things differently in 1838 and cannot be judged by the morality of today, there was already a strong body of opinion against trading in human beings and against slavery in 1838 and the authorities at Georgetown University were not living in a vacuum. I think they deserve their scarlet letter and that the University should wear that letter today and be open and above board about the past, just as Britain has to be.
*A little known fact: the US Congress outlawed the maritime slave trade in 1819 and the tiny fledgling US Navy was energetic in anti-slave trade operations, regarding this trade as mere piracy and by 1860 the anti-slavery patrol of the US Navy in West Africa, never more than one or two smaller ships, occasionally backed up by a serious warship such as the USS Constellation, had destroyed over 100 slave ships and set their prisoners free. In some cases where the crews and officers were US citizens, the US Navy would summarily try them and hang them for piracy, as the British sometimes did for British citizens after 1827, when slave trading by British subjects became a capital offence.
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It was recurring threats by colonial governors to free the slaves that had the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia hooking up with the Massachusetts crazies in the revolution project.
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