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  2. 1838 Jesuit slave sale - Wikipedia

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    One of the Maryland Jesuits' institutions, Georgetown College (later known as Georgetown University), also rented slaves. While the school did own a small number of slaves over its early decades, [13] its main relationship with slavery was the leasing of slaves to work on campus, [14] a practice that continued past the 1838 slave sale. [13]

  3. Jesuit missions in North America - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the Civil War, Jesuit plantations in the United States owned African-American slaves and participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1838, to raise funds Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. sold 272 African-American slaves to plantation owners in Louisiana for the current-day equivalent of three million dollars. Jesuits ...

  4. Jesuits in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the Civil War, Jesuit plantations in the United States owned African-American slaves and participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1838, to raise funds Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. sold 272 African American slaves to plantation owners in Louisiana for the current-day equivalent of three million dollars. Jesuits ...

  5. The 272 - Wikipedia

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    In 1838, prominent Catholic leaders of the Jesuits Order sold 272 enslaved people to fund Georgetown University. The book chronicles the history behind this event by following an enslaved family for almost 200 years. This book also shows how the Catholic Church in the United States depended on slave labor to run its institutions and grow its ...

  6. History of the Catholic Church in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Archbishop of Baltimore, John Carroll, had two black servants – one free and one a slave. The Society of Jesus owned a large number of slaves who worked on the community's farms. Realizing that their properties were more profitable if rented out to tenant farmers rather than worked by slaves, the Jesuits began selling off their slaves in 1837.

  7. Thomas Jefferson's enslaved mistress' living quarters found - AOL

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    White said the local African American community has not always embraced Monticello because Jefferson was a slave owner. "I find that some people are receptive to the message and some are resistant ...

  8. Antoine Lavalette - Wikipedia

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    In the 17th century, several Jesuit theologians wrote justifications of slavery and dissenters were silenced or punished. By Lavalette's time the Jesuits owned more than 20,000 slaves worldwide, most of them in the Americas. Although some Jesuits dissented, other Jesuits approved of torture and corporeal punishment for slaves. In the Caribbean ...

  9. Fact check: Trump says George Washington ‘probably didn’t ...

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    And he expressed an opinion on American history that is clearly contradicted by the facts. Fact check: Trump says George Washington ‘probably didn’t’ own slaves. Washington did