One Georgetown alumnus stumbled across this history and determined to take steps to bring restorative reconciliation. While reading through the Georgetown historical records, Richard Cellini, chief executive of a technology company, found the names of those slaves sold to Southern plantation owners. Deeply troubled, he wondered why no one—not the bishops, not the priests, not the school—had made any efforts to reconcile the history. No apology had been offered, and no one had attempted to track down the descendants of the slaves who were sold. There’d been no reparations, no space to even have
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