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Tag: Society of Jesus

Elton Wright-Trusclair poses for a photo outside his home in Minneapolis on July 13.
Posted inCULTURE & COMMUNITY

Minneapolis man seeks reparations from the church that enslaved his ancestors.

by Lee Hawkins July 14, 2022July 14, 2022

In 2017, top clergy and officials from the Society of Jesus and Georgetown University apologized for selling 272 enslaved Black people to three Louisiana plantations in 1838. Elton Wright-Trusclair and other descendants say the apology and atonement gestures that followed were not enough.

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