A construction crew building a residence hall at Georgetown University dug up a human femur in December 2014 that may have come from a slave, and the college kept the discovery quiet.
Arrupe Hall was built adjacent to a segregated Catholic graveyard that included the burial sites of slaves and free blacks dating back to the early 1800s, reported Georgetown's student newspaper The Hoya on Wednesday. The construction crew knew “that the discovery of human remains would be a possibility” because only 50 out of 900 bodies were moved from the former cemetery during the construction of another building in 1953, according to The Hoya.
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