TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swarns,Rachel L.
TI  - The 272: the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church 
SN  - 0399590862
AV  - E445 .M3 S94 2023
U1  - 378.753 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Random House
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Georgetown University
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Racism
KW  - Reconciliation
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -