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We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor 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. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor 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. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor 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. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
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