Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Shaping American Catholicism
Author: Robert Emmett CurranPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813219671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Distinguished historian Robert Emmett Curran presents an informed and balanced study of the American Catholic Church's experience in its two most important regions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Soldiers of the Cross
Author: Kent T. DollarPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Extremely well researched and unique in its approach, citing nine individual Confederate soldiers and the impact of the Civil War on their Christianity. These case studies, largely drawn from their own words in letters and diaries, give a personal and individual perspective that has largely been overlooked in other similar works.
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities. Jan. 1975
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Story of Ste. Anne de Detroit Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1976, and the Bicentennial History of Catholic America
Author: Ste. Anne's Church (Detroit, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The 272
Author: Rachel L. SwarnsPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399590862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
“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 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family, Swarns illustrates how the Church relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain its operations and to help finance its expansion. 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.
Guide to the Michigan Genealogical & Historical Collections at the Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan
Author: Michigan Genealogical CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Author: Perspectives on the American Catholic Church, 1789-1989
Author: Stephen VicchioPublisher: Christian Classic
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description