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The 1838 Jesuit Slave Sale (Episode 96)

42 min • 17 april 2023

The business of treating people as property has never reflected well on those who practice it; however, when the practice is not just morally repugnant but also violates the religious precepts of your faith... you really have to ask yourself what side of history you want to be on. In 1838, the Jesuit order of Maryland faced just such a dilemma. These are the choices they made.


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Sources:

The Georgetown Slavery Archive

The Georgetown Memory Project

The GU272 Memory Project

Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation by Adam Rothman, Elsa Barraza Mendoza, et al. (2021)


Further Resources:

⁠The Georgetown Memory Project⁠

⁠The GU272 Memory Project⁠

The GU272 Descendants Association

The Jesuit Plantation Project

The Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project

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