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Georgetown College was a site of enslavement since it began operations in 1792. Black men, women, and children laboured in slavery on its campus for seven decades. Contributing to the growing field of studies of slavery and universities, this article explores the experiences of Georgetown’s enslaved community. It proposes to conceive the university campus as a place of enslavement and argues that Georgetown’s reliance on hired enslaved labourers meant that displacement, fractured family ties, and precarity defined the lives of people enslaved on its campus. As Georgetown operated as both a religious and educational institution, it also illustrates how enslaved people used the school’s Catholic chapel to build new communities, create new family ties, keep up with relatives, and build social capital. To uncover the experiences of a community overlooked by institutional histories, this study uses two underused sets of sources: the school’s financial records and the sacramental registers of Holy Trinity Church. Examining the circumstances of the enslavement of men, women, and children on campus displays the human costs involved in Georgetown’s operation. It also invites us to consider how enslaved people are the unrecognized founders of a school that continues to deal with its slaveholding past.

Enslaved on Campus: Displaced Lives, Families, and Religion at Georgetown College