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The 272
- The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews
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The story begins with Ann Joice, a free Black woman and the matriarch of the Mahoney family. Joice sailed to Maryland in the late 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Her descendants, who were enslaved by Jesuit priests, passed down the story of that broken promise for centuries. One of those descendants, Harry Mahoney, saved lives and the church’s money in the War of 1812, but his children, including Louisa and Anna, were put up for sale in 1838. One daughter managed to escape, but the other was sold and shipped to Louisiana. Their descendants would remain apart until Rachel Swarns’s reporting in The New York Times finally reunited them. They would go on to join other GU272 descendants who pressed Georgetown and the Catholic Church to make amends, prodding the institutions to break new ground in the movement for reparations and reconciliation in America.
Swarns’s journalism has already started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery. The 272 tells an even bigger story, not only demonstrating how slavery fueled the growth of the American Catholic Church but also shining a light on the enslaved people whose forced labor helped to build the largest religious denomination in the nation.
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“No single work of history can remedy the vexing issue of repair for slavery in America, but The 272 advances the conversation and challenges the collective conscience; without knowing this history in its complexity we are left with only raw, uncharted memory.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A brilliant blend of history and journalism, this book unearths the story of the enslaved people whose labor benefited the Catholic Church—and what happened when their descendants sought answers.”—People
“Swarns is a gifted writer and storyteller. But The 272 succeeds not only in its telling of a tragic story. [She] centers the experiences of enslaved people owned by the Jesuits for nearly two centuries who remained largely unnamed and unknown until now.”—The Washington Post
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New York Times best-selling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the “Devil’s Half Acre”. When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into “God’s Half Acre”, a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams.
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Preachy
- De Elizabeth Combs en 09-13-22
De: Kristen Green
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Harriet Tubman
- The Road to Freedom
- De: Catherine Clinton
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman?
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Returning this book
- De KMS en 07-11-18
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Bound for Canaan
- The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
- De: Fergus Bordewich
- Narrado por: Peter J. Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
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The Civil War brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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The Heroic Missing Piece
- De Paul Frandano en 03-03-17
De: Fergus Bordewich
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An Imperfect God
- George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
- De: Henry Wiencek
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
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Washington was born and raised among Blacks and mixed-race people; he and his wife had blood ties to the slave community. Yet as a young man he bought and sold slaves without scruple, even raffled off children to collect debts (an incident ignored by earlier biographers). Then, on the Revolutionary battlefields where he commanded both Black and White troops, Washington's attitudes began to change.
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Excellent handling of one part of Wahington's life
- De buffaloboy en 05-20-04
De: Henry Wiencek
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
- A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- De: W. Caleb McDaniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
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Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.
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insightful and educational
- De Mark W. en 06-29-20
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Ebony and Ivy
- Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- De: Craig Steven Wilder
- Narrado por: Corey Allen
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery - setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.
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Detailed chronicle of ed & Slavery's entwinement
- De Scott en 07-23-16
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Stolen
- The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
- De: Richard Bell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
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Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
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Should have been a fact based novel
- De Cate F. en 01-11-21
De: Richard Bell
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The American Slave Coast
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
- De: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
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The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could be decommissioned only by emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States.
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Get "The Half Has Never Been Told" instead!
- De Ary Shalizi en 11-28-16
De: Ned Sublette, y otros
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land
- De: Anna-Lisa Cox
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
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Starting in our nation's earliest years, thousands of free African Americans were building hundreds of settlements in the Northwest Territory, a territory that banned slavery and gave equal voting rights to all men. This groundbreaking work of research reveals the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration. Though forgotten today, these pioneers were a matter of national importance at the time; their mere existence leading to fierce political movements and battles that tore families and communities apart long before the Civil War erupted.
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A must read for all!
- De Linda en 05-14-19
De: Anna-Lisa Cox
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Sugar in the Blood
- A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
- De: Andrea Stuart
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way, binding together ambitious White entrepreneurs and enslaved Black workers in a strangling embrace....
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A sweet, historical gem
- De Adrian en 06-29-13
De: Andrea Stuart
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Bury the Chains
- Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
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In early 1787, 12 men - a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery - came together in a London printing shop and began a remarkable grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements.
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Great Eye-Opener
- De Carl Thompson en 01-06-19
De: Adam Hochschild
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Dawn of Detroit
- A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree - both native and African American - in the frontier outpost of Detroit.
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Great!
- De Melissa Eisner en 05-30-18
De: Tiya Miles
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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Necessary story well told!
- De Marc W Rhoades en 01-19-23
De: Ilyon Woo
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Liberty's Exiles
- American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- De: Maya Jasanoff
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
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Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.
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Staggering in its Breadth
- De Anders P Morley en 02-21-21
De: Maya Jasanoff
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Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In Easily Slip into Another World, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music.
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When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him.
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A memoir of forgotten memories
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Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate threat to his lifestyle. Macarthur hastily conceived a plan: He would commit bank robbery, of the kind that had become frightfully common in Dublin at the time. But his plan spun swiftly out of control, and he needlessly killed two innocent civilians.
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Madness
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On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports listeners behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital.
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A written companion and workbook for listeners seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma. Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centers remembering as a means of survival.
De: Shena J. Young PsyD, y otros
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- Collis
- 03-23-24
Details!
The details and research done to give a 360* look at this is beyond impressive and appreciated.
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- Michael S. Henderson
- 09-06-23
Hard, but absolutely worthwhile.
A meticulously researched, personal and illuminating read. If it’s not grueling at times you may have a missing piece but it’s worth it, beginning to end. Not recommended if you for some reason still have, or would like to keep, any love for the Catholic Church.
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- Jeremy Prater
- 07-17-23
Thanks for the Journey "Back to the Future"
This history is a personal account of what my family (Patrick & Letty Blacklock-Hawkins (along with son Jackson 'Jack' Hawkins; Gabriel & Adelphia 'Delphy' West-Butler; Isaac Hawkins; and Ignatius 'Nace' and Bibianna 'Biby' Mahoney-Butler) endured during their enslaved by the Jesuits!
Love, love, the extensive history accounts. It's a stack of receipts so high there is NO WAY one can remain "sleep". The case for #WOKE
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- KH79
- 03-19-24
I am blown away....
This was a history lesson and possibly a genealogy lesson as well. As an African American Roman Catholic with roots dating back to Maryland around 1775...and a great aunt who was a Roman Catholic Nun in Maryland....I am floored by this book. My family names are Hawkins, Brown, and Butler.....I will be listening to this book again, taking notes, and hitting Ancestory.com for more information. The Church we love so much played part in the destruction of black families through slavery. This book was mind blowing.
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- steve
- 08-16-23
Excellent book
Narration was well done
This story is well worth your time. The details and writing make the families come alive. The Jesuits should be ashamed. The families are classy and great people
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- Valerie
- 04-26-24
very interesting
I learned so much from this book about Catholics and Salvery. It makes you think about other families and their story
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- Freeman Fridie Jr.
- 08-16-23
Well Done
This is my favorite type of history. History that helps to fill in all the things that were intentionally left out of our history classes as children.
This is an engaging, informative read from the perspective of the enslaved families that were destroyed and sold off to save a Jesuit school.
The narration by Karen Murray is lovely; I could listen to her all day.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-05-24
Jesuit accountability
This wonderfully detailed book compels both national and more specifically Jesuit accountability. The church must confess and atone not in ways that are self-suiting but in ways that suit the people they oppressed.
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- NW P
- 06-16-23
Not surprising…
…but fundamentally disappointing in the Jesuit response to several hundred years of abuse and enslavement, I have long embraced Catholic education as a Protestant. But the long-standing denial by the church is disheartening. It, at the moment, makes me feel deceived and disappointed…if only in my naivety. I shall not immediately disclose my shattering revelation to my two sons who currently believe in the catholic education system and values as they makes decisions about the education of their children.
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- Mike
- 04-02-24
The scholarship and attention to detail.
This book demonstrates what can be done when people decide to do something about the harm their ancestors caused and perpetuated. Coming face to face with the wrongs done to generations took courage. I am grateful for that. So much more needs to be said and done. America has great wealth, and I am hope it will pay attention and accept its larger role in slavery. This is a very good beginning !
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