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May 12, 2024

How Bondage Built the Church

Tiya Miles The New York Review

Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance

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January 10, 2023

Graduate and Professional Student Workers Vote To Unionize in Landslide Election

Megan Vaz Yale Daily News

Ninety-one percent of the graduate and professional student workers who participated in Monday's election voted to form a union.

April 17, 2016

272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?

Rachel L. Swarns New York Times

In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

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