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“The Catholic Church that Mulledy loved believed that Black people had eternal souls that should be nurtured. So they tended to the souls of the Black people on the plantations even as they bought and sold their bodies. The buying and selling of human beings was no sin in the eyes of the church. American slavery, which had fueled the expansion of the church in the United States, was simply not a priority in Rome.”
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
“By the time freedom finally came to the Mahoneys, the Jesuits had received more than $130,000 from the 1838 sale, about $4.5 million in today's dollars.
The money enabled Georgetown to survive and thrive and help stabilize the Maryland provinces precarious finances.”
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
The money enabled Georgetown to survive and thrive and help stabilize the Maryland provinces precarious finances.”
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
“Today, the Catholic Church is the largest religious denomination in the United States, with more than 60 million members, more than nineteen thousand parishes, and enormous influence in the nation's political, cultural, educational, and religious life. Americans often view it as a northern institution that has welcomed, educated, and nurtured waves of newcomers from Europe and Latin America. But there is a darker history both for the church and for our country: for more than a century, the American Catholic Church relied on the buying, selling, and enslavement of Black people to lay its foundations, support its clergy, and drive its expansion. Without the enslaved, the Catholic Church in the United States, as we know it today, would not exist.”
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
― The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
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