Georgia has seceded from the Union, and many white Baptist leaders in the state cheer the decision. From the pages of the state Baptist newspaper The Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin lends his support – and solicits that of all other Southern Baptists in the state – to Georgia’s formal embracing of the growing Confederate…
As Georgia prepares for the upcoming slaveholdering states’ convention, and Texas prepares for secession, Kansas is admitted as the 34th state of the United States of America. For six years the scattered residents of Kansas territory, mostly poor white farmers, had struggled to obtain statehood, their efforts held hostage to the heated slavery debate in…
In Georgia, the state’s secession convention continues under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist. Delegates pass a Bill of Rights for white citizens of the new Confederate state. The document both declares that Georgia is a Christian nation, and disallows a religious establishment: The prevalence of the Christian Religion among the people,…