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Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations The Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, Va., in February began handing out cash payments to the descendants of Black Americans who labored there during the time of slavery and Jim Crow.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times [ Race affects our lives in countless ways. To read more stories on race from The New York Times, .] One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pa...

[ Race affects our lives in countless ways. To read more stories on race from The New York Times, .] One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape. He made it to Philadelphia, where he met the famed abolitionist William Still. He then continued north to Canada and, after the Civil War, returned to Washington, D.C., where he was able to open a bank account for his c...