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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 24, 1865

Sam Richards, an Atlanta businessman and Southern Baptist who fled the city for New York following Sherman’s capture of the city, today arrives back in Atlanta. Like many other middle class white Southerners (of whom there are relatively few, actually) who did not serve during the war, whether having temporarily lived in the North or…

August 24, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 28, 1865

Founded in 1638 under the leading of Roger Williams, the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island was the first Baptist congregation in the New World. In both religious and civic life, the early Baptists of Rhode Island, despite intense opposition from nearby colonial theocracies, chartered a course of freedom of conscience, religious liberty for…

May 28, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Jacob Eliot, Navarro County, Texas

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 24, 1865

With the war over, former slaveowners who at one time were the elites of the South face a future devoid of privilege, power and riches. The thought of starting over without slave labor is daunting. And in the minds of many, living in a United States where blacks are free and equal to whites is…

May 24, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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