Craig Manson, Distinguished Professor and Lecturer in Law at the University of the Pacific, has recently written about how the South in the US could be regarded as the “birthplace of black Catholicism.” … Explaining the historical context , Manson told CNA that “evidence suggests that the first black Catholics in America were those in Florida as early as 1565. They came with the Spanish explorers. Some were slaves; others were free Africans.” …

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South the 'birthplace of black Catholicism' says expert