Special Thanks To:
Dr. Ellen Schattschneider
(Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Brandeis University)
Dr. Schattschneider was an invaluable resource, specifically regarding our connection to Winnicott. We could not have done it without her, so we thank her for her guidance and support.
Lisa Fager
Lisa Fager, the Executive Director of the Black Georgetown Foundation, offered indispensable expertise throughout our research process. Her extensive knowledge of the Cartwright and Duckett families, along with her willingness to share resources and context, profoundly shaped our work. We are sincerely grateful for her time and support; this project would not have been possible without her.
Dr. Mark Auslander
Dr. Mark Auslander has been an invaluable resource throughout our project, and we are deeply grateful for his guidance. Notably, his blog post In Search of Grace (“Gracy”) Ann Duckett, c. 1791-1874, enslaved by Samuel and Lydia Whitall of Georgetown served as the foundation for a great deal of our research, allowing us to confirm and fact check information found elsewhere. Further, his blog post In Search of Grace (“Gracy”) Ann Duckett, c. 1791-1874, enslaved by Samuel and Lydia Whitall of Georgetown provided valuable information on the Whitall family. We are especially appreciative of the depth and clarity of his work, which also offered crucial insights into the Whitall family and greatly enriched our understanding of the historical landscape we were studying.
DC Historical Center
We drew on archives from the Dumbarton United Methodist Church collection within the D.C. Historical Center’s Kiplinger Library with the help of Alex Aspiazu, a librarian with the center. Specifically in our research we used the “Sabbath School Records” in which we found Gracie Duckett and her daughter, and “1848 Quarterly Conference Book,” in which we found proof of Rev. Joseph Cartwright's preaching.
The Peoples Archive: MLK Library
At the People’s Archive within the MLK Library we were able to locate the “DC Free Negro’s Register 1821-1861”, allowing us to confirm the free status of nearly ever person we researched.
Dumbarton House
The Dumbarton House, specifically their Black History Month series exploring hidden figures at the House on Facebook, provided us with incredibly valuable insight on Gracie Duckett and her reality while both enslaved and free. https://www.facebook.com/DumbartonHouseMuseum/posts/the-history-of-dumbarton-house-is-made-up-of-all-who-lived-and-labored-here-by-c/1026875749482574/
Ancestry.com and Newspaper.com
Ancestry.com and Newspaper.com together provided us with a great deal of background information on the families we are studying. We were able to confirm familial relationships, birth dates, and death dates with ancestry.com, as well as the majority of the data in our family tree. Newspaper.com specifically allowed us to track Rev. Joseph Cartwright’s preaching across northern states, as well as death announcements and the advertisement informing on Julia Ann Duckett’s escape from servitude to the Eversfield family.
Census Records
We cited the “Free Inhabitants in Georgetown” Census’ from 1840, 1850, and 1860 throughout our research. These documents allowed us to confirm the free or enslaved status of those we were studying, providing us with the ages of individuals at the time they were manumitted, which in turn allowed us to track when key changes in legal status occurred.