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By Faith Karimi, CNN Linda Johnson-Thomas’ grandfather worked at the Virginia Theological Seminary for more than a decade, first as a farm laborer before moving up to head janitor. Her grandparents lived in a little white house on campus with their four children, including her mother. But until two years ago, she had no idea that her grandfather, John Samuel Thomas Jr., had been enslaved at the school in Alexandria, just outside of Washington, D.C. “All I knew was that he grew up on the seminary,” said Johnson-Thomas, 65, who lives in Mitchellville, Maryland. “We knew there were slav...
Their ancestors were enslaved workers. Now they're among the first to get cash reparations CNN 5 hrs ago © Virginia Theological Seminary The campus of the Virginia Theological Seminary outside Washington, D.C. Linda Johnson-Thomas' grandfather worked at the Virginia Theological Seminary for more than a decade, first as a farm laborer before moving up to head janitor. Her grandparents lived in a little white house on campus with their four children, including her mother. But until two years ago, she had no idea that her grandfather, John Samuel Thomas Jr., had been enslaved at the school ...
The Virginia Theological Seminary has begun paying reparations to descendants of slaves who built the campus during slavery and Jim Crow.
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 pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape. He m...