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Jun 4, 2021 · For more than a century, the Virginia Theological Seminary relied on the forced labor of Black Americans. Now the seminary is sending annual cash payments of $2,100 to the descendants of those people.
- Ari Shapiro
Feb 9, 2022 · Yes. Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) was born, bred, and operated within the economy based on chattel slavery. VTS knows that the majority of the founders, three of the first four professors, benefactors, as well as the institution itself, held Black people in bondage during the antebellum south. The Seminary hired enslaved Black people ...
Jul 8, 2021 · Virginia Theological Seminary has identified 32 of the oldest living direct descendants of Black laborers who worked at the seminary during the slavery and Jim Crow eras and has begun making cash payments to them as part of a reparations program. Photo: VTS
Jun 14, 2021 · Paying Reparations. Virginia Theological Seminary has issued the first checks to descendants of Black people who worked on the campus during the eras of slavery, Reconstruction and segregation. A “servants’ quarters” -- believed to have been used to house enslaved people -- stood on the campus of Virginia Theological Seminary until the 1970s.
- Elizabeth Redden
Jun 27, 2021 · Virginia Theological Seminary The seminary started cutting checks for the descendants – whom it describes as shareholders – in February. The $1.7 million endowment is expected to grow and ...
Jun 4, 2021 · For more than a century, the Virginia Theological Seminary relied on the forced labor of Black Americans. Now the seminary is sending annual cash payments of $2,100 to the descendants of those people. It's one of the first cash reparations programs in the country, and it's meant to recognize the Black people who worked on campus for little or ...
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Sep 2, 2022 · Virginia Theological Seminary designated $1.7 million as a reparations endowment fund. In September 2019, VTS announced the creation of an endowment dedicated to the payment of reparations, and the intent to research, uncover, and recognize Black people who labored on-campus during slavery, Reconstruction, and segregation under Jim Crow laws.
