Tracing His Roots, Georgetown Employee Learns University Sold His Ancestor

As a Georgetown employee, Jeremy Alexander watched as the university grappled with its haunted past: the sale of slaves in 1838 to help rescue it from financial ruin. He listened as Georgetown’s president apologized for its sins and looked for ways to make amends. En mnr. Alexander observed, with wonder, some of the slave descendants when they visited…Lees meer