'It stops you cold': the 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown | Maryland
The descendants of Ann Joice, separated as part of the sale of 272 people, are at the center of a vital new work
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The descendants of Ann Joice, separated as part of the sale of 272 people, are at the center of a vital new work
Addressing the university’s history of slavery is intimately intertwined with developing ways to actively memorialize the people it enslaved.
In the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted ...
Some civil rights advocates say colleges could make being a descendant of any American slave a new factor in admissions.
Catholic order pledges $100m in reparations to descendants of enslaved people Miranda Bryant © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ali Haider/EPA An order of Catholic priests has pledged $100m in reparations to descendants of Black people it enslaved and sold, in the largest initiative of its kind by the church. Leaders of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States have promised to raise the sum, which will be paid to a foundation set up with a group of descendants, and to “begin a very serious process of truth and reconciliation”. “Our shameful history of...