The 1836 register of the Methodist Episcopal Church (later Mount Zion Church) in Georgetown, District of Columbia, lists as a member “Pattie Brooks”, recorded just below the name of Gracie Ducket, who was enslaved by Samuel Whitall, who leased the property known as Belle Vue (later known as Rittenhouse Place, and after that, Dumbarton House).Continue reading “In Search of Pattie (Patsy or Margaret B) Brooks and Harry Brooks, Enslaved and Free in Georgetown, District of Columbia”
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In Search of the Family of Joseph Anderson, c.1857-1904
My Mount Holyoke College students and I have been intrigued and moved by the story of Joseph Anderson, an African American laborer buried in Mont Zion cemetery in north Georgetown, Washington DC. Like Moses Boone, Joseph Anderson was interred without this brain, which had been extracted by a Smithsonian anthropologist in 1904 for the “racialContinue reading “In Search of the Family of Joseph Anderson, c.1857-1904”
In Search of Moses Boone’s Ancestors and Collateral Descendants
My Mount Holyoke College students and I have been fascinated, moved, and deeply distressed by the story of the African American child Moses Boone, 1902-1904. After his death at the age of 21 months, at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC, his brain was extracted by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička to be included in theContinue reading “In Search of Moses Boone’s Ancestors and Collateral Descendants”
Mark Auslander 