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Article | July 6, 2023
Writing about Georgetown’s Slaveholding Past Has Not Shaken Black Catholic Author’s Faith
America Magazine – The Catholic Standard | 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…
Article | June 28, 2023
Book Review: The Slave Sale that Saved – and Stained – Georgetown
The New York Times Book Review – The Slave Sale that Saved – and Stained – Georgetown
Podcast | June 13, 2023
The Catholic Church profited from slavery — ‘The 272’ explains how
NPR Fresh Air – For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only recently come to the attention of the public.
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