272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants? - The New York Times
Rachel L. Swarns
Peter Havermans wrote of an elderly woman who fell to her knees, begging to know what she had done to deserve such a fate, according to Robert Emmett Curran, a retired Georgetown historian who described eyewitness accounts of the sale in his research.
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