Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20210619:22:45:00
>> reporter: growing up in maryland, i didn't ask a lot of questions about my family history. i knew we loved each other and we identified as black. but now i do have a lot of questions about my ancestors. how did we end up in louisiana? why do we have a farm? when we were given our identity? >> 272 people out of about 1,000 total who had been owned by georgetown university were sold all at once and all together to three sugar plantations in southern louisiana to rescue georgetown from bankruptcy. >> richard a georgetown alumstarted the georgetown memory project in 2018. they used genealogy to...
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