2023 NYT Notable Books - Nonfiction

 

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1. The 272: the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church

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Swarns, Rachel L.
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Hamden/Miller New Adult Nonfiction
975.2004/SWA
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"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors...