Writing about Georgetown’s Slaveholding Past Has Not Shaken Black Catholic Author’s Faith

July 6, 2023

Since 2016, Rachel L. Swarns has been researching Georgetown University’s involvement in the slave trade, including the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people to help pay off debts the Jesuit priests incurred in running the university.

There were some detours along the way. A pandemic for one. A career (and literal) move from Washington for another, leaving her job in The New York Times’ Washington bureau to be a professor at New York University.

America Magazine, July 2023.

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