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Author Swarns, Rachel L., author.

Title The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Random House, [2023]
1 hold on first copy returned of 18 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 SWARNS    DUE 04-17-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.362 SWARNS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  306.362 SWARNS    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 SWA    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  306.362 SWA NEWBKS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 SWA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.362 SWARNS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  306.362 SWARNS    DUE 04-15-24
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - New Materials  306.362 SWARNS    DUE 04-08-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  306.362 SWA    DUE 04-03-24

Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 326 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-313) and index.
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." --Amazon.com.
Contents Arrivals -- A church's captives -- Freedom fever -- A new generation -- The promise -- A college on the rise -- Love and peril -- Saving Georgetown -- The sale -- A family dividend -- Exile -- New roots -- Freedom -- The profits.
Subject Georgetown University -- History.
Jesuits -- United States -- History.
Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History.
Racism -- United States.
Reconciliation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Two seven two
Two hundred seventy two
ISBN 9780399590863 (hardcover)
0399590862 (hardcover)
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