Tensions between whites and freedmen grow all the more in many towns and cities throughout the former Confederacy. In Atlanta this month black members of the white-led First Baptist Church yet use the white First Baptist Church facilities for their now-autonomous worship services. Once wanted in the church in order that white members might deploy…
In Virginia’s eastern panhandle Freewill Baptists, under the leadership of Rev. Nathan Cook Brackett, lead the way in helping establish Freedmen’s schools. A native of Maine and in the closing months an assistant field agent with the United States Christian Commission in Winchester, Virginia, Brackett following the conclusion of the war suggested that Freewill Baptists…
This week the editor of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald takes objection to Baptist newspapers in the North criticizing as “slander” an editorial he recently wrote. “The point I made was simply this: that fearful outrages had been perpetrated on the people of the South that were not justified nor warranted by the recognized laws…