The Jesuit university is confronting its slaveholding past and wrestling with what responsibilities it has to the descendants of 272 slaves sold and sent South in 1838.Catholic Georgetown’s Catholic slaves
The Jesuit university is confronting its slaveholding past and wrestling with what responsibilities it has to the descendants of 272 slaves sold and sent South in 1838.
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