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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 31, 2021, 08:59 PM May 2021

Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations [View all]

Source: New York Times

One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape.

He made it to Philadelphia, where he met famed abolitionist William Still. He then continued north to Canada and, after the Civil War, returned to Washington, D.C., where he was able to open a bank account for his children. He eventually went on to work as a labor organizer in Buffalo.

To this day, Dowling’s family line continues. And, most likely for one of the first times in American history, his descendants could receive cash payments for his forced labor.

In February, the Virginia Theological Seminary began handing out cash payments to the descendants of Black Americans who were forced to work there during the time of slavery and Jim Crow.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/seminary-built-slavery-jim-crow-175717795.html

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