Understanding Baptists During the Civil War: A Daily War Journal

Baptists provide a prism into the diversity of American responses to the Civil War. Northerners, Southerners, White, Black, Native American, men, women, officers, soldiers, politicians, civilians, preachers, laity, elites, common folkĀ  — Baptists represented the full spectrum of the Civil War experience. This site is devoted to understanding Baptists during the Civil War through more…

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Racism and Inequality in the North Prior to the Civil War

by Bruce Gourley From its earliest days, the colonial experience in the New World was infused with human inequality. Theocratic colonies through both government institutions and establishment churches refused to allow freedom of conscience or religious liberty. Many poor whites were indentured servants and many blacks either indentured servants or slaves. White women were denied…