The formation of autonomous black Baptist churches in the South continues unabated. Today in the deep South town of Albany, Georgia the Mount Zion Baptist church is established in a blacksmith shop on the corner of State and Jackson streets. The Rev. R. R. Watson is the church’s founding pastor. Within six months a second…
Dual Baptist narratives continue in South Carolina this month, intertwined yet divergent. Many white citizens (including Baptists) of Charleston, South Carolina, a city besieged by nearby Union naval forces since July, have fled inland and northward to Orangeburg. The roster of refugees, mainly women and children, continues to grow as winter looms. An area with…
Meeting at Mount Zion Baptist church, Copiah County, the Mississippi Baptist Association addresses the ongoing war: “Resolved, That this Association do most earnestly recommend the churches to meet on the first Lord’s day in every month at ten o’clock to offer up special prayer for the success of our cause and the spiritual welfare of…