Book Review: 'The 272,' by Rachel L. Swarns - The New York Times

“The 272,” by Rachel L. Swarns, recounts the decision by the university’s early leaders to sell nearly 300 people enslaved on Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland in 1838.

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