Georgetown's Dark History
Clip: Season 9 Episode 903 | 1m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Kevin and Negest are descendants of enslaved people sold by Georgetown University.
Kevin and Negest, descendants of enslaved people who were sold by Georgetown University, explain the dark history behind the renowned institution.
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Georgetown's Dark History
Clip: Season 9 Episode 903 | 1m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Kevin and Negest, descendants of enslaved people who were sold by Georgetown University, explain the dark history behind the renowned institution.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- When most Americans walk on these trails along the Potomac, they see kayaks, they see jet skis, yachts.
What I see, what I carry with me is, is a dark history.
[calm music] Where I live now is actually blocks away from where my ancestors, brothers and sisters, uncles, nieces and nephews were shipped off to Louisiana.
They were sold by the Jesuits to save Georgetown University.
- Georgetown University exists because the Jesuits sold human beings.
The Jesuits came to America in search of religious freedom.
I don't know how they could in turn steal someone else's.
[calm music] To see the names of former enslavers of members of my family elevated in such a way is really disheartening.
The assumption is that they did great things, that everything that they did was great, and it wasn't.
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Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later. (11s)
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