Is It Ever Too Late To Correct the Wrong?

September 20, 2023

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.