(Washington D.C.) - Georgetown University students are willing to pay more for school in order to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved people who were sold to pay the university's debt.
Students have voted to approve a fee on tuition next year totaling $27.20 a student.
The school will ultimately decide whether to implement the fee.
Money raised would create a fund for descendants of 272 enslaved people sold from Jesuit plantations in 1838.
The money from those sales helped pay the debts of Jesuit-owned Georgetown.
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