Race/Related
A Catholic Order Pledged $100 Million to Atone for Taking Part in the Slave Trade. Some Descendants Want a New Deal.
The deal had been hammered out in a series of private meetings between the Jesuits and three descendant leaders.
Ancestors of Chanda Norton, left, and her sister, Ronda Thompson, were enslaved by the Jesuits in Maryland. After the Jesuits pledged to raise money to atone for participating in the slave trade, the sisters said that they and other descendants should have been consulted on how the funds would be allocated.Credit.Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times