Patrick Francis Healy
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Patrick Francis Healy was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building,
Healy in 1882
An 1877 portrait of Healy
Healy Hall at Georgetown University
Early architectural rendering of Healy Hall, grander than what would ultimately come to fruition
Quadroon
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In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a Quadroon or Quarteron was a person with one-quarter Sub-Saharan African or Indigenous Australian ancestry, and three-quarters European ancest
Patrick Francis Healy
…to become the president of a predominantly White university. Healy was born in Georgia to a family that produced many Catholic leaders. His mother was one-eighth Black and his father was a White Irish emigrant. Under Georgia law, Healy's father technically owned his wife and children as slaves. Healy and his siblings…
1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting in the centre a quadroon child.
James Townsend (centre), who was an Octoroon