Descendants of 272 enslaved people gathered in Maryland to discuss their families’ shared past.
For decades, Julie Hawkins Ennis never questioned her family story. The 55-year-old knew she was born and raised in Southern Maryland, just like her grandparents. Her family tree connects to St. Mary’s County’s earliest European settlers as well as the Native Americans who first occupied the land.Efforts years ago to trace her genealogy through Ancestry.
On Saturday, Hawkins Ennis was one of more than 150 descendants of the group sold by Jesuits — known as the GU272 — gathered at St. Mary’s College for what organizers said was a first-of-its-kind family reunion. “We have all been separated, and now we want to come back together,” said Henrietta Vines Pike, another member of the gathering committee. “We all have a strong sense of faith. And if you remember all the Catholicism that has gone into our lives, we have a strong sense of family too.”Saturday’s event might as well have been one big family reunion. Attendees traveled to St. Mary’s County from as far away as Louisiana and New York.
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