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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 14, 1865

Today’s edition of Harper’s Weekly summarizes South Carolina’s Constitutional Convention, which took place in the First Baptist Church of Columbia, the same site of the opening of the 1860 South Carolina Secession Convention: The South Carolina State Convention was convened in the Baptist Church at Columbia at noon September 13. The Convention consisted of 124…

October 14, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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.

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