Description
Early Georgetown was not the polite society conjured by books like “The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club.” Rather, it was built in part from trafficking in human beings and from their labor. For instance, in 1805, Francis Lowndes, the son of a trafficker in humans, sold to Robert Peter the tract now known as Tudor Place for $6,000. Peter sold inherited family slaves for $100,000 a few years later. In this class you’ll learn about the real history of an early Georgetown that was diverse in the extreme.