A ship chartered by the American Colonization Society sails out of Baltimore with 172 freedmen from the Lynchburg, Virginia area, many who are of “the Baptist persuasion, one of the latter being a preacher.” A number of skilled persons are among those who embark. The destination is Carysburg, in the interior of Liberia. The leaders…
Today on a farm near Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio a son is born to staunch Baptist parents, the father a farmer and veteran of the Civil War. Growing up in the late decades of the century, Warren G. Harding becomes a newspaperman, following in his father’s footsteps (in addition to farming and a medical…
The California State Convention of the Colored Citizens meets this day in Sacramento. Many Baptists are present. The convention’s president, Frederick G. Barbadoes, opens the day’s proceedings with these words: “For the fourth time the colored citizens of this State are assembled in Convention for the purpose of obtaining JUSTICE, and the consideration of subjects…