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In the years following the sale of the 272, the College claimed that the money it had received from the Maryland Province’s sale of its slaves was meant as a gift from the Province to the College. In 1860, however,
a Father Visitor, sent from the Jesuit Superior General in Rome to resolve the disagreement, ruled that the money was indeed a loan, and that the College owed a little more than half of it ($14,000) to the Province. In 1869, the College paid the last of its installments on the debt.
Updated Research GU272: What’s in a Name?
While the documents speak of 272 slaves being purchased, in fact, the lives and families of 314 individuals were radically impacted by the sale; in addition, only 214 were ever sent to
demanding the renaming of university buildings – Mulledy Hall and McSherry Hall – that bore the names of the two men most responsible for the mass
sale of those enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits. GU272 became a catchphrase for all of those enslaved persons impacted by the 1838 sale.
“The Lost Slaves of Maryland,” 19 June 2019, Update, Georgetown Memory Project.