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To The Contrary
The Catholic Church & Slavery
Season 32
Episode 3214
Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns discusses her new book “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.” Swarns exposes the Catholic Church's reliance on slave labor and sales, as she follows the Mahoney family's two-century journey of indentured servitude and enslavement, revealing the harrowing origin story of the Church in America.
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