Today in Natchez, Mississippi, a Union-occupied city since September 1863, an experiment begins in the city’s Rose Hill Baptist Church, a historic black congregation. The experiment is in the form of a church day school for black children, a school enabled by the support of Northern abolitionists who provide teachers for the new school. In…
Despite the reversal of fortunes in the Confederacy, Southern Baptist leaders remain firm in their support of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. For his part, Davis often couches the war against the United States as a holy war, as he does yet again today in an address to soldiers via General Orders No. 19. Davis’s optimistic…
Slavery, all along recognized by both North and South as the cause of the war, continues to steer the direction of the great conflict, a trajectory that day by day is favoring the enslaved over against slaveholders and their allies within the Southern Confederacy. Today Massachusetts U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (Republican) submits a constitutional amendment…