These efforts have led to initiatives like Universities Studying Slavery, a University of Virginia-led consortium of roughly 50 schools that examines the history and legacy of slavery and its continued impacts in the present. Individual schools have also looked into the matter; earlier this year at UVA, for example, a genealogist began working to identify and find the descendants of some of the 4,000 slaves estimated to have worked on the University’s Grounds before 1865.