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Title: The 272
Author: Rachel L. Swarns
Narrator: Karen Murray
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 06-13-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 55 ratings
Genres: Black & African American
Publisher's Summary:
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. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion.
