While white Southern Baptist elites fervently defend bondage as God’s will for blacks and fret over the possibility of a future without riches and comfort derived from the labor of black slaves, Northern (American) Baptists celebrate the impending freedom that they feel certain is the future of all blacks, as well as the will of…
In Virginia, the fighting resumes on the second day of the Battle of the Wilderness. Casualties again number in the thousands during a long day of bloody but inconclusive clashes. During the fighting, both sides fail to take advantage of opportunities that might have shifted the battle’s momentum. By nightfall, both Union and Confederate forces…
News of the the Lincoln administration granting permission to the American Baptist Home Mission Society to fill pulpits in abandoned Baptist churches of the South does not sit well with Southern Baptist divines. A caustic and defiant editorial originally published in the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald , reacting to an earlier editorial in the New…