Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin is an historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of the black churches in the United States. He is the acknowledged expert on the Spencer Churches, the oldest black denominations in the country. He currently teaches at Vanderbilt University.
... and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione chronicorum" ...