The Civil War has raised racial tensions to new heights in the South and in some areas of the North. The number of openly racist Northerners is such that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is not assured of re-election in the coming 1864 election. Hoping to tip the presidential election away from Lincoln and force the…
This month two prominent Michigan Baptists find themselves without a job. Dr. James A. B. (1810-1888) and Mrs. Lucinda Hinesburg Stone (1814-1900), having led the American Baptist affiliated Kalamazoo College through two decades of growth, are forced to step down. The crisis of the Civil war only partially explains the departure of the husband and…
Born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania on September 26, 1832, Joanna P. Moore was raised by Episcopalian and Presbyterian parents. During a revival meeting in 1851, however, she joined a Baptist church. Attending Female Seminary in Illinois earlier this year, she learned of the needs among a colony of freed women and children on Union-controlled Island…