Joseph Brown, Governor of Georgia, and a Southern Baptist

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 25, 1861

Georgia’s secession convention continues, under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown (illustration), currently the most prominent Southern Baptist in the state. Secession delegates yesterday agreed to send ten representatives to a convention of slaveholding states scheduled for February 4. Today, delegates pass a resolution appointing the ten representatives to carry a proposal to the slaveholding…