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On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M., a ship, The Guineaman, arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community that by the time of emancipation became known as the Parish of St. Francis Xavier, the first black Catholic parish in the United States of America.
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Baltimore, Maryland · United States
