Georgetown University confronts its history with slavery

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Published on Jul 5, 2021
One-hundred-seventy-eight years ago, Georgetown University was free to everyone who was able to attend; it was also massively in debt. To pay that debt, the university sold 272 slaves -- the very people that helped build the school itself. Today, the university's leaders, students and alumni are grappling with how to confront that history. Michelle Miller reports.