Jesuit leader on Georgetown slave sale: 'We betrayed the very name of Jesus.'

The Washington Post 2017-04-18

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Speaking at Georgetown University on April 18, Father Timothy P. Kesicki, the president of the Jesuit Conference, described the enslavement and sale of 272 people by two Jesuit priests in 1838 as "tragic."

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