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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico

Sweda, Krystle FThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2019

… The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico” examines the emergence of Catholicism and its local expressions among Africans and their descendants in seventeenth-century New Spain. In that century, New Spain (the Spanish term for colonial Mexico) was home to the second largest enslaved …

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