It offered an even greater surprise: The origins of Bayonne-Johnson's family didn't lay in Louisiana, but in Maryland. That man, Thomas Mulledy, then the president of Georgetown University, had sold 272 slaves to pay off a massive debt strangling the university. It also showed him to be the president of Georgetown University. By Terrence McCoyPatricia Bayonne-Johnson's family members never talked much about their history. In Bayonne-Johnson's hands, experts say, was the earliest known research into what became of the descendants of the Georgetown slaves.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 18, 2016 09:11 UTC