EPISODE · Jul 15, 2019 · 48 MIN
Episode 290 - The Georgetown Memory Project / Lambert On Researching Revolutionary Ancestors
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Fisher visits with Richard Cellini, founder of the Georgetown Memory Project, and Claire Vail, Director of the GU272 Memory Project at AmericanAncestors. Hear about this remarkable project, identifying the over 300 people sold as slaves to plantations in Louisiana by Georgetown College in 1838, in order to financially save the school, as well as all their descendants. It’s a multi-faceted story you’ll want to hear.
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Fisher visits with Richard Cellini, founder of the Georgetown Memory Project, and Claire Vail, Director of the GU272 Memory Project at AmericanAncestors. Hear about this remarkable project, identifying the over 300 people sold as slaves to plantations in Louisiana by Georgetown College in 1838, in order to financially save the school, as well as all their descendants. It’s a multi-faceted story you’ll want to hear.
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