Join Wiley for a lecture by Dr. Adam Rothman, the director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies and co-editor of the recent book Facing Georgetown’s History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, which details the university’s history of enslavement and its recent efforts to confront its past. In his autobiography, Coach John Thompson writes about Georgetown’s slaveholding legacy, especially the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1883 that was made to save the financially struggling university. Aside from tracing the descendants of the 272 individuals, Dr. Rothman’s research explores how institutions and communities confront their shameful pasts. OLLI Manheim Roon on the campus of UNC-Asheville. This event is part of the Fall 2023 Common Word Community Read. For more information click here.