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Tag Archives: black suffrage

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 13, 1865

Today the post-war South Carolina constitutional state convention meets at the First Baptist Church of Columbia to form a post-war Provisional Government. The venue is the same as that of the earlier declaration of secession, December 20, 1860. And today’s delegates, all white elites, are just as defiant as were secession delegates in 1860 (many…

September 13, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 12, 1865

Meeting in Detroit’s Second Baptist Church, African American, the Colored Men’s Convention of the State of Michigan convenes this day. Delegates to the convention vote to establish the State Equal Rights League of Michigan, an organization to advance the “rights of the colored people” of Michigan. “Colored suffrage” is on the ballot for November 1866,…

September 12, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 27, 1865

This month Richmond’s First African Baptist Church debates pastoral leadership. White minister Robert Ryland, president of Richmond College, has long been their preacher, as antebellum and Civil War laws mandated that black congregations must be overseen by a white minister. Ryland, although a defender of black slavery, was somewhat controversial in that he advocated for…

May 27, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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