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The Office of the President and Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies invite you to a book event and conversation with Rachel L. Swarns, journalist, professor, and author of “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.” Rachel Swarns will discuss her work and book […]
In 'The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church,' Rachel Swarns tells of “one of the largest documented slave sales in the nation," the Jesuit sale of 272 enslaved persons in 1838.