Following a meeting of Richmond-area black citizens at the First African Baptist Church of Richmond on June 10, five representatives from that meeting visit with U.S. President Andrew Johnson this day to voice their complaints of how Richmond’s white citizens are yet denying freedoms to blacks. Making matters worse, Federal military authorities were collaborating in…
Confederate soldiers who survived the war are settling back into home life. Many of those who are Baptists return to their home churches this month. In Georgia, the Harmony Primitive Baptist Church in Pike County and the Houston Factory Baptist Church of Houston County each extend “the right hand of fellowship” to returning soldier members.…
Prior to the war, the landscape of the South Carolina coast was that of large plantations owned by some of the wealthiest men in America. The vast fields of cotton owned by these planters was worked by hundreds of thousands of black slaves who generated riches for their owners. The population was overwhelmingly black, with…