In this episode Carla Wills and Negest Rucker joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss their family connections to slavery in Maryland and the Catholic Church.

Recommended books related to this episode:
The 272 : the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church / Rachel L. Swarns.
The ledger and the chain : how domestic slave traders shaped America / Joshua D. Rothman
Slavery and freedom on the middle ground : Maryland during the nineteenth century / Barbara Jeanne Fields.
Facing Georgetown's history : a reader on slavery, memory, and reconciliation / edited by Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza.
The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist.
Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff.
Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.

Music used in this episode
Title: Good Kids Inst
Author: HoliznaRAPS/https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/
Source: Free Music Archive / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznaraps/good-kids/good-kids-inst/
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/