Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza.

University President John J. DeGioia met with Patricia Bayonne Johnson, a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown to a Louisiana plantation in 1838, in Spokane, Wash., on Monday, June ...

272 enslaved people were sold to sugarcane planters in 1838 by the founders of Georgetown University in order to pay off school debts.

That's the modern equivalent of the price paid for 272 slaves of African descent in 1838, all sold to Louisiana plantations by Jesuit priests who baptized them into the Catholic faith. The priests ...

Hawkins, who died in 1902, was one of the slaves sold in the university's 1838 slave sale. Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Gravestone of Cornelius 'Neely' Hawkins, one of the slaves in the ...

In 1838, in an effort to stabilize the finances of Georgetown University, the Jesuits who ran the place decided to sell 272 slaves who worked on their Maryland plantations. Fast forward to 2015. New ...

The city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, has removed an auction block marking the spot where African Americans were once displayed and sold as slaves. The 800-pound slave auction block was removed from a ...

Harriet, a 21-year-old Black woman, was one of many people sold at auction near what is now Court Square Fountain in downtown Montgomery. Montgomery was a major hub for the slave trade, with numerous ...

MARINGOUIN — Two evils occurred in 1838 when Jesuit priests running the school that would become Georgetown University decided to sell 272 enslaved black men, women and children to plantations in ...