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Daily Archives: April 3, 2011

Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 3, 1861

Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, identifies slavery as the main issue between North and South, equates black slavery with God’s purposes and the Christian faith, and calls upon white Southern Baptists to defend slavery and support the Confederacy. In so doing, Boykin voices Christian Nationalism, linking the Confederacy and the Church as…

April 3, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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