Friday, October 7, 2022

Mikhail on Gaston and Slavery

William Gaston (LC)
Over at Balkination, my Georgetown Law colleague John Mikhail has a pointer to several documents relating his research on the ties to slaveholding of William Gaston, Georgetown’s first student and a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.  Professor Mikhail’s letter to Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia is here.  An article on his research in Georgetown’s principal student newspaper, The Hoya, is here

--Dan Ernst