Before a packed sanctuary at the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of the Macon congregation, delivers a sermon defending black slavery as biblical. (The Macon Telegraph printed the sermon in its February 7, 1861 edition.) Warren ties slavery explicitly to the Bible and the will of God, arguing that biblical…
Churches referenced on this website: The listing will be updated throughout the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. References to the churches below can be accessed using this site’s search function. Some churches listed below may not yet be visible due to the reference point being beyond the present date, and the need of…
Numerous Baptist documents of the Antebellum and Civil War era have been preserved and many are now digitized. Following is a small sampling of primary documents, other than associational and local church records, that are available on the Internet. The documents are arranged in chronological order. Many hundreds of other digitized documents are utilized in…