Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved

St. Louis University's student government unanimously passed a resolution urging the school to address its history of slavery and compensate descendants for long-standing harm.

Descendants of enslaved Black people who worked for Jesuit missions in Missouri, including building St. Louis University, say the institution owes them up to $74 billion for unpaid labor. They are demanding that SLU officials hold to their commitments to work toward racial healing.