African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 8, 1862

Unlike Southern Baptists, Primitive Baptist churches and associations of the South tend toward silence regarding the war. The Towaliga Primitive Baptist Association of Georgia, however, is an exception. Meeting today, Towaliga Baptists address the national war as well as an escalating inter-denominational conflict with a Southern Baptist association. Concerning the Confederacy, these Primitive Baptists marry…