WASHINGTON (OSV News) 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.
There were some detours along the way. A pandemic for one. A career (and literal) move from Washington for another, leaving her job in The New York Times Washington bureau to be a professor at New York University.
But the story needed to be t
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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.
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“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.