Publication and distribution of Confederate religious periodicals is a priority of Baptist leaders of the South. The cessation of commerce between North and South has forced the Confederacy to become self-dependent, while Southern Baptists in particular are abhorrent of the abolitionist sentiment that is so often expressed in Northern religious literature, and thus avoid Northern…
Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor in the South and advocate of Landmarkism, continues his relentless apologetic for African slavery. The Baptist press of the South not infrequently publishes recently-preached sermons upholding slavery. This week, the Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a (lengthy) summary of a pro-slavery sermon preached one week earlier in…
Southern Baptist pastor and author Amos C. Dayton, a Tennessean and leading advocate of the theory that Baptist lineage can be traced back to John the Baptist, is in Georgia preparing for a speaking tour to Baptists and other Christians on the subject of slavery. He declares he will: … treat at length of the…