Georgetown University first publicly acknowledged the 1838 sales of slaves sell in a New York Times article last spring which featured several descendants, one of whom lived in Baton Rouge.

Georgetown University and the Jesuits gift $27million to charity for descendants of enslaved people who were sold to pay off a debt at the school in 1838 The donation is part of a plan to raise a ...

An architectural drawing featuring a design proposal for the Healy Building at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., circa 1876. In 1838, the Jesuit order in Maryland sold almost 300 enslaved ...

In a historic step forward to reconcile with Georgetown’s slaveholding history, University President John J. DeGioia met with Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold in ...

In an address to students and faculty this afternoon, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia offered a public apology for the school’s ties to the slave trade, particularly the 1838 ...

The 1838 sale — worth about $3.3 million in today’s dollars — was organized by two of Georgetown’s early presidents, both Jesuit priests.

Georgetown University students in Washington DC have voted in favour of a reparations fund to repay descendants of slaves sold by the school in 1838. A "Reconciliation Contribution" fee of $27.20 ...

Georgetown University plans a wide-ranging effort to make amends for the school’s 1838 sale of 272 slaves to a Louisiana plantation, President John J. DeGioia told The Washington Post on ...

The impetus to address this chapter in school history began last fall, as Georgetown reopened a building named for former campus president Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, who served from 1829 to 1838 and ...

A 2016 article in The New York Times described the 1838 sale by what was then Georgetown College, the premier Catholic institution of higher learning in America at the time.

Georgetown University has announced that descendants of 272 slaves, from whose sale the school profited in 1838, will receive "an advantage in the admissions process" as part of a larger effort to ...