N.O. student will study at university that sold her ancestors as slaves

562 views · Published 26 July 2017 · 2:26 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: WWLTV · 2017 · People & Blogs

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In 2016, a New York Times article revealed that in 1838 the Jesuit priests who ran Georgetown University sold 272 slaves to sustain the school's finances. Many of these slaves ended up on plantations here in Louisiana. There could be thousands of living d

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