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April 12, 2019

Georgetown Students Vote to Create Slavery Reparations Fund
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Students at Georgetown University have overwhelmingly voted to create a
reparations fund for the descendants of slaves once sold by the
university. The students agreed to pay a fee of $27.20 each semester in
honor of the 272 people sold by the school in 1838. Georgetown freshman
Nile Blass helped push the measure.

Nile Blass: "I want everyone here to know that we cannot remove the
historical pre-context to our current context. The direct quality of
life of these individuals, who were used as objects and equipment for
our university, can be directly tied to the decisions that our
Georgetown faculty of the time created."



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