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100	1		_aSwarns, Rachel L., _eauthor. _9209451
245	1	4	_aThe 272 : _bthe families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / _cRachel L. Swarns.
246	3		_aTwo hundred seventy two, the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, map, portraits (some color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.
505	0		_aArrivals -- 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.
520			_a"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors through the centuries to understand how slavery enabled the Catholic Church to establish a foothold in America and fuel its expansion. Ann Joice, a free Black woman and progenitor of the Mahoney family, sailed to Maryland in the 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Harry Mahoney, Ann's grandson, saved lives and a Church fortune with his quick thinking during the British incursions in the War of 1812. But when the Jesuits fell into debt and were at risk of losing Georgetown University, they sold 272 people, including Harry's daughter Anna, to plantation owners in the Gulf. Like so many of the families the Jesuits' sale tore apart, Anna would never again see her father or her beloved sister Louisa who stayed with Harry in Maryland. Her descendants would work for the Jesuits well into the 20th century. The two sides of the family would remain apart until Swarns' original reporting on the 1838 sale in the New York Times reunited them and led directly to reparations for all the descendants of the enslaved"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSlavery _zMaryland _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aGeorgetown University _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aJesuits _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vGenealogy. _9342797
650		0	_aSlavery and the church _xCatholic Church _xHistory.
650		0	_aSlavery and the church _zUnited States _xHistory.
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