Patrick Francis Healy
Patrick Francis Healy was the 29th President of Georgetown University , known for expanding the school following the American Civil War. Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed during Healys tenure and is named after him.
Patrick, as he was known, was born into slavery in 1830 in Macon, Georgia, to the IrishAmerican plantation owner Michael Healy and his AfricanAmerican slave Mary Eliza. Mary Eliza was mixedrace , the daughter of a black slave and white slaveowner. Because of the law of slavery that children took the status of the mother, by the principle of partus sequitur ventrum, Patrick and his siblings were legally considered slaves, although their father was free and they were threequarters or more European in ancestry.
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