By this point in the Civil War, the Confederacy’s three evangelical denominations–Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists–are frequently echoing one another when it comes to stoutly defending African slavery and prognosticating ultimate Confederate victory as the will of God. Prominent ministers, writers and journalists of all three denominations also in unison revile the North and U.S. President…
While many Northern Baptists are publicly abolitionist in sentiment, this does not mean that all Baptist abolitionists actually view blacks as equal to whites, as demonstrated by a lawsuit in New York over “negroes” sitting in certain pews. The Troubles About the Negro in the Madison-avenue Baptist Church.; SUPERIOR COURT–SPECIAL TERM. Before Justice Barbour. Howell…
Publication and distribution of Confederate religious periodicals is a priority of Baptist leaders of the South. The cessation of commerce between North and South has forced the Confederacy to become self-dependent, while Southern Baptists in particular are abhorrent of the abolitionist sentiment that is so often expressed in Northern religious literature, and thus avoid Northern…