An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

None of the Butler slaves have ever been sold before ... through the cotton fields of Alabama and the rice swamps of Louisiana, while the parents might be left on the old plantation to wear ...

During the 1830s alone, the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881.