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On June 19, 1838, Maryland Jesuit priests Thomas Mulledy and William McSherry sold 272 enslaved people to Louisiana sugar plantation owner Jesse Batey and former Louisiana congressman Henry Johnson to help Georgetown College, known today as Georgetown University, avoid financial ruin.
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