Today long-time Kentucky Baptist layman and former state politician Leonard Stephens writes to his brother William. Lamenting, in part, the difficulties he is having with his former slaves, Stephens offers a snapshot of white-black relations in the post-war months: “Since you left I have been considerably troubled over the threatening of my negroes to leave…
Males are not the only members of the white race suffering from the loss of privileges, properties and loved ones in the recent war. This week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald publishes an article entitled, “To Southern Women from a Southern Woman,” purportedly penned by an (anonymous) female. The audience, however, is not common white women,…
Southern Baptist leaders are busy at work rewriting the history of slavery as a kind, benevolent, godly institution. Today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald sketches the argument, a narrative of the past that is blatantly false and self-serving, married to a trajectory of a racially-unequal future that is decidedly deceitful and disingenuous. In addition, the fanciful…