Book Review: Slaves of Georgetown

July 28, 2023

In November 1838, a sad if familiar scene played out on the docks of Alexandria, Va., as slave traders herded scores of enslaved men, women and children onto a ship bound for cotton plantations in faraway Louisiana. They were the first contingent of 272 black Americans that the Jesuits of Georgetown College were selling to prop up the school’s precarious finances.

The Wall Street Journal, July 2023.

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