Prior to the war St. Augustine, Florida, a heavily Catholic town named after the fourth century bishop, St. Augustine of Hippo, served as a slave trade center of the Southeast. Augustin Verot, Catholic vicar apostolic of Florida, was as passionate a defender of slavery as were Baptist leaders of the South. His January 4, 1861…
The current state of Southern Baptist thought and life has become so complex as to defy easy categorization. Southern Baptist newspapers, typically owned and published by well-to-do Baptists who represent the views of denominational leadership, deliver weekly dollops of defiance against the abolitionist United States, adding regular doses of optimism evidenced by this or that…
Confederate citizens are growing increasingly restless under the ever-expanding heavy hand of the Confederate government. Southern Baptist leaders are no exception. Basil Manly, Sr. is a leading Alabama Southern Baptist pastor and denominational leader. Today his two horses are conscripted by the Confederate Army. The man who at one time served as chaplain to the…