Southern Maryland GU272 -Jesuit Enslaved "Celebrating Faith, Family, and Unity" Reclamation Project

The Reclamation Project's gathering is the first-ever reunion in Southern Maryland designed to connect families fractured by the 1838 forceable sale and removal of 272 relatives enslaved Maryland and Georgetown Jesuit on plantations in Maryland to privately owned plantations in Ascension, Iberville and Terrebonne Parishes in Louisiana. Others were lost through additional domestic sales in other parts of Louisiana, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. On Saturday, September 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Reclamation Project will host a "Come-Unity" Program in the Nancy R. and Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center. Please come and be part of this historic event. The events later in the day are for the RU 272 Descendants only.