Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly Northern people. Upset that Missouri is requiring all ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, Southern Baptists lament that the mandate…
Today long-time Kentucky Baptist layman and former state politician Leonard Stephens writes to his brother William. Lamenting, in part, the difficulties he is having with his former slaves, Stephens offers a snapshot of white-black relations in the post-war months: “Since you left I have been considerably troubled over the threatening of my negroes to leave…
In wake of the recent inaugural gathering in Louisville of Kentucky’s State Convention of Colored Baptists, solicitations are underway to raise money in order to pay salaries of teachers for schools for black children. To this point there have been efforts in Louisville and beyond to provide education for the children of freedmen. Such efforts…