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Video | September 20, 2023
Is It Ever Too Late To Correct the Wrong?
CUNY-TV/Black America – 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. Rachel L. Swarns joins host Carol Jenkins to discuss her latest book, “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Church”. A story of the American Catholic Church and one family’s will to survive.
Video | September 19, 2023
The Catholic Church and Slavery
WABC-New York – How the Catholic Church relied on the sale of slaves to expand its’ foothold in America.
Video | July 8, 2023
Author Rachel Swarns Discusses Her New Book
NY1 – A new book dives into the dark history of the Catholic church and follows the enslavement of 272 Black Americans by Jesuit priests in 1838.