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Jesuits and Georgetown repent for slavery

(CNN) — There is wide gulf, Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845, between Christianity proper and the “slaveholding religion of this land.” One is “good, pure and holy,” the other corrupt and wicked, the “climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds.” “We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries and cradle-plunderers for church members,” […]

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