{"id":60147,"date":"2020-09-12T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60147"},"modified":"2021-07-15T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:15:06","slug":"instead-its-because-he-was-born-mixed-race-on-a-georgia-plantation-to-a-wealthy-irish-father-who-looked-after-his-welfare-and-paid-tuition-for-several-children-to-attend-catholic-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60147","title":{"rendered":"Instead, it\u2019s because he was born mixed-race, on a Georgia plantation, to a wealthy Irish father who looked after his welfare and paid tuition for several children to attend Catholic schools, that the brilliant Patrick Healy could become the Jesuit university\u2019s most celebrated President."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Francis_Healy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Patrick Francis] Healy<\/a> been born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maryland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland<\/a>, he could have been sold along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wamu.org\/story\/15\/11\/17\/the_hidden_history_of_slavery_funding_georgetown_university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">272 individuals<\/a> Georgetown [University] President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_F._Mulledy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Mulledy<\/a> sold in 1838. Instead, it\u2019s because he was born mixed-race, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgia<\/a> plantation, to a wealthy Irish father who looked after his welfare and paid tuition for several children to attend Catholic schools, that the brilliant Patrick Healy could become the Jesuit university\u2019s most celebrated President. The black lives held in bondage by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Society_of_Jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesuits<\/a> in 1838 did not matter to Mulledy. Healy and his brothers, however, did matter to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bryan Greene, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Born Enslaved, Patrick Francis Healy \u2018Passed\u2019 His Way to Lead Georgetown University<\/a>,\u201d <em>Smithsonian Magazine<\/em>, September 8, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/born-enslaved-patrick-francis-healy-passed-his-way-lead-georgetown-university-180975738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/born-enslaved-patrick-francis-healy-passed-his-way-lead-georgetown-university-180975738\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had [Patrick Francis] Healy been born in Maryland, he could have been sold along with the 272 individuals Georgetown [University] President Thomas Mulledy sold in 1838. Instead, it\u2019s because he was born mixed-race, on a Georgia plantation, to a wealthy Irish father who looked after his welfare and paid tuition for several children to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31129,7709,31131,7712,10478,31130,31132,22848],"class_list":["post-60147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-bryan-greene","tag-georgetown-university","tag-jesuit-order","tag-patrick-francis-healy","tag-smithsonian-magazine","tag-society-of-jesus","tag-thomas-f-mulledy","tag-thomas-mulledy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60149,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60147\/revisions\/60149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}