GU272

GU272 Memory Project logo

Credit: American Ancestors Note: Vector version available Contact: Jim Power (jim.power@nehgs.org)

First page of the GU272 Bill of Sale, dated June 19, 1838

Courtesy of the Georgetown Slavery Archive https://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/ Credit: Courtesy of the Georgetown Slavery Archive Contact for more information: Adam Rothman

GU272 Descendant Collage

Photos of Donna Comeaux's family -- Donna is a GU272 descendant Photo credit: Photo by Claire Vail

Mr. Frank Campbell, one of the GU272

The only known photograph of one of the GU272, Mr. Frank Campbell. The two girls in the photo are unidentified.

Graphic representation of one of the GU272

Credit: American Ancestors

Graphic representation of one of the GU272

Credit: American Ancestors

Dr. Linda Mann, VP of Research for the Georgetown Memory Project

Richard Cellini, Founder of the Georgetown Memory Project

Antoinette Baines, GU272 descendant (Harris family)

90-year-old Antoinette Baines is a descendant of the Harris family. She lives in California.. Photo credit: Claire Vail

Carolyn Smith, GU272 descendant (Queen Family)

Carolyn Smith gesturing toward gravestones of descendants of enslaved people in Houma, Louisiana. Behind her are sugar plantations and the sugar mill where her ancestors worked. Photo credit: Claire Vail

Old Sharecropper Cabins in Raceland, Louisiana

Photo Credit: Claire Vail

American Ancestors Interviewing the GU272 in Baton Rouge

Photo credit: Claire Vail

Dr. Linda Mann interviewing a GU272 descendant

Photo credit: Claire Vail

Graphic representing the GU272 Memory Project

Credit: American Ancestors