Uncharted territory: Jesuits in St. Louis search for descendants of people they enslaved

Four years into an ongoing research effort, officially called the “Slavery, History, Memory and Reconciliation Project,” about 70 people have been identified so far, who, between 1823 and 1865, were mainly forced to work at the university, its church and St. Stanislaus Seminary, which initially operated as a farm in the Florissant area when Missouri was still a jump-off point to the wild frontier.