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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
Jesuits pledge $100 million for descendants of people the Catholic order once enslaved
Maryland Jesuits in 1838 sold 272 people to plantation owners in Louisiana to pay Georgetown University s debts.
By Marisa IatiThe Washington Post
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Photographs of descendants of enslaved people who were sold by Georgetown University and the Maryland Jesuits to southern Louisiana in 1838. Claire Vail/American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society via AP
WASHINGTON One of the Catholic Church’s most well-known religious orders has pledged $100 million for the descendants of hundreds of enslaved people they once profited from – a significant move toward atoning for its slavery as the United States continues to reckon with its past.
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