Catholics and the Negro
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery and the church; Catholic Church; Antislavery movements; African Americans; Religion; African American Catholics; History
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this article, Butsch describes the relationship between African Americans and the Roman Catholic Church. He relates early efforts of the Church to educate and emancipate slaves, and its later attempts to work for equal rights and prevent lynching. Butsch turns to the world history of slavery to argue that it was the influence of the Church in the old world that caused a gradual increase of emancipation, and writes of the effort of Spanish and French missionaries and Catholic schools to serve the slaves of America.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

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Transcribed from: Catholics and the Negro. p. 393-410. Caption title. Originally published in: The Journal of Negro history. Vol. 2, [no. 4, October] 1917. Signed at the end: Joseph Butsch, St. Joseph's Seminary, Baltimore, MD.

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