As the spring campaigns move into late May with no significant victories on the part of the Confederacy, the rhetoric over black slavery, the cause of the war as long acknowledged South and North, escalates. White Baptist leaders in the South, banking on the South’s antebellum foundation of white supremacy, work hard to keep white…
As the magnitude of the Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sink into the public consciousness of the South, Christian Index editor and Southern Baptist journalist Samuel Boykin offers his perspective on the crisis at hand, emphatically declaring the inevitable triumph of Southern white supremacy. [The Crisis of our National Affairs] Is undoubtedly upon us,…
Today marks the two year anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, to the then newly-formed Confederate States of America. The surrender came two days after the Civil War began when South Carolina soldiers fired upon the federal fort. At the time, few South or North believed the…