![]() ![]() So, at 63, she applied, was accepted and went back to college to earn her degree. Then that fall, she heard Georgetown’s president announce the university would give preferential admissions treatment to descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans it sold to pay off the school’s debts. ![]() “When that comes out, it is both devastating and satisfying." “I had bought into the prescribed story that we'll never really know who our enslavers were, specifically,” Short-Colomb said. Until that moment in the summer of 2016, Melisande says she only knew from oral history that her family had once been enslaved somewhere to the north. Melisande Short-Colomb was working as a chef in New Orleans when an independent genealogist sent her an email, notifying her that Jesuit priests who ran what is now Georgetown University had sold her ancestors in 1838 into southern Louisiana. ![]()
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