Inside the sale of 272 enslaved people to save Georgetown University

How important was the slave trade to the development of the Catholic Church in America?

This slave sale in 1838 that saved Georgetown tore apart scores of families. And so I wanted to tell the story of one of those families. And in this case, my book focuses on the family of two sisters, Anny and Louisa, who were really close, who named their firstborn children after each other and who were torn apart in this sale. Louisa managed to escape when the slave traders came. She was warned by the priest who ran the plantation where they were living.

Absolutely. My book is about the Catholic Church and Georgetown. But slavery drove the growth of a number of institutions. And many, many institutions are grappling with this right now. It’s universities, but not just universities. Religious institutions, not just the Catholic Church. We’re talking about banks. We’re talking about insurance companies.

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