Oberlin College, a Christian abolitionist college in Ohio, is in an uproar. A young African American student is accused of poisoning two white female students who were boarding in the same house as the accused. Edmonia Lewis was born about 1844 in either New York, New Jersey or Ohio (the various accounts of her birth…
An anonymous Baptist from Savannah, Georgia, pens a letter today that, when it is published in Baptist newspapers in the coming weeks, will shock and dismay many home front Southern Baptists. Something evil, in short, pervades the Southern Zion. An eminent divine of this city, just returned from Manassas, represents that place as wholly given…
The war time years temporarily alter the trajectory of the Baptist press. The Baptist press of the South, represented by state and regional newspapers, routinely report on war-related news from other states within the Confederacy. Prior to and after the war, this seeming fascination with tidbits of secular news from the Confederacy is unmatched. A…