Baptists and the American Civil War: June 13, 1863

Today “The Slave-Martyr,” a poem originally published in The American Baptist, is re-printed in The Anglo-African. The American Baptist is a publication of Northern (American) Baptists, produced weekly by the Utica, New York-based American Baptist Free Mission Society. The society and the publication are self-described as “intensely abolitionist.”  The Washington, D.C.-based abolitionist newspaper the National…

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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 9, 1862

Following a string of prior Northern Baptist resolutions supporting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Ohio Baptists, assembled at their annual state convention this month, offer their own resolution. “Whereas the powers that be are ordained of God, and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God,” and is threatened with…