Georgetown University Libraries have played a central role in the Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Initiative (SMR Initiative). At its inception, University leaders called upon the Library to improve access to essential resources that established the role of Georgetown in slavery, to develop its collections to support the study of slavery more broadly, and to promote the use of these resources in the classroom and among researchers from the Georgetown community, including GU272 descendants.
This site brings together the resources and programming created by the Library in the process of implementing the SMR Initiative and the work of faculty, students, and GU272 descendants that expand upon our resources and continue to influence our work. These pages also include two pages that establish the scope of the initiative and the timeline showing its evolution.