Starting School At The University That Enslaved Her Ancestors
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talked to Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose family was once enslaved by Georgetown University. Now, at 63, Short-Colomb she has enrolled as a freshman there.
Mélisande Short-Colomb knew her family had been enslaved. But until recently, she didn't know that they were enslaved, and later sold, by Georgetown University.
She found out about that part of her history when she got a message from a genealogist for the , which is dedicated to finding the descendents of the 272 people sold by
