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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Georgetown University Dedicates Campus Building To Slaves Sold In 1838 20170527

This is about 40 minutes. [applause] all right everybody. Thank you, phil. I want to thank you all for being here this afternoon and i wish to welcome all of you again to Georgetown University. Behind me is Isaac Hawkins hall. [applause] right there. We are here to dedicate this annemariealong with hall, the oldest building of our campus just a short walk from here i wish to offer a special welcome to our community who are present this afternoon, some traveling a great distance to be here for this day which includes this dedication, our energy of remembrance, contrition and hope which concluded just a few months ago, and some special gatherings and presentations into the afternoon and this evening. I welcome all of you, especially the members of the hawkins family and all of the extended members of your family. We are grateful and honored by your presence and by the eff ....

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Former church now home to exhibit that tells history of enslaved people

A former Episcopal church in Donaldsonville, built in 1873 on land donated by a slave owner and Louisiana governor, is now home to a new, permanent exhibit that pays tribute to enslaved people who worked Louisiana’s sugarcane fields. ....

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272 enslaved people sold to pay debts; exhibit tells story

DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) A former Episcopal church in Donaldsonville, built in 1873. ....

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Exhibit tells story of nearly 300 enslaved people Georgetown University sold

"GU272 and Ascension Parish: The Jesuit and Episcopal Connection to Slavery" is a project of the River Road African American Museum. ....

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