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The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Random House, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0399590862
  • 9780399590863
Other title:
  • Two hundred seventy two
  • Two seven two
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Arrivals -- A church's captives -- Freedom fever -- A new generation -- The promise -- A college on the rise -- Love and peril -- Saving Georgetown -- The sale -- A family divided -- Exile -- New roots -- Freedom -- The profits.
Summary: "In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion." --Amazon.com.
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Book NMC Library Stacks E445 .M3 S94 2023 1 Available 33039001525525

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-313) and index.

Arrivals -- A church's captives -- Freedom fever -- A new generation -- The promise -- A college on the rise -- Love and peril -- Saving Georgetown -- The sale -- A family divided -- Exile -- New roots -- Freedom -- The profits.