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Source: New York Times

3/15/2021

Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales

"The move by the leaders of the Jesuit conference of priests represents the largest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to make amends for the buying, selling and enslavement of Black people, church officials and historians said."