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The 272

the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church
2023
"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors through the centuries to understand how slavery enabled the Catholic Church to establish a foothold in America and fuel its expansion. Ann Joice, a free Black woman and progenitor of the Mahoney family, sailed to Maryland in the 1600s as an indentured servant, but her contract was burned and her freedom stolen. Harry Mahoney, Ann's grandson, saved lives and a Church fortune with his quick thinking during the British incursions in the War of 1812. But when the Jesuits fell into debt and were at risk of losing Georgetown University, they sold 272 people, including Harry's daughter Anna, to plantation owners in the Gulf. Like so many of the families the Jesuits' sale tore apart, Anna would never again see her father or her beloved sister Louisa who stayed with Harry in Maryland. Her descendants would work for the Jesuits well into the 20th century. The two sides of the family would remain apart until Swarns' original reporting on the 1838 sale in the New York Times reunited them and led directly to reparations for all the descendants of the enslaved"--Provided by publisher.
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Ellis Island

tracing your family history through America's gateway
2000
A guide to tracing family history and immigration on the Ellis Island Immigration Station.

African American lives

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uses genealogical research and DNA analysis to investigate the family histories of eight prominent African-Americans, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, and others.

African American lives 2

Genealogical investigations and DNA analysis help participants discover where they come from and who they are.

Mordecai

an early American family
2003
Chronicles three generations in the life of a Jewish American family centered in North Carolina, from the birth of the U.S. to the Civil War.

Lines of succession

heraldry of the royal families of Europe
1999

Where she came from

a daughter's search for her mother's history
1997
A memoir in which the author, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, discusses her quest to reconstruct the lives of her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Somerset homecoming

recovering a lost heritage
1989
A personal search for black slave ancestors and a study of the plantation and slave community in North Carolina.

Mount Hope

America's first municipal victorian cemetery
1995

In search of our roots

how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
2009
Traces the ancestral roots of nineteen known African- Americans, and details the lineages of Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Chris Rock and others; and also discusses the African slave trade, ways to trace genealogy, DNA testing, and other related topics.

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