Baptists and the American Civil War: May 26, 1865

American (Northern) Baptists are wrapping up their annual national meetings, having adopted resolutions for sending missionaries among the freedmen of the South, supporting the abolition of slavery, and affirming black suffrage. The American Baptist Publication Society votes to raise $50,000 to send missionaries to the South to re-organize Sunday Schools among the white population and…

Uncle Remus in Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 13, 1862

Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868), long-time writer and now editor of The Countryman, a newspaper published from Turner’s Putnam County, Georgia plantation–Turnwold–today affirms the Baptist & Banner newspaper’s recent addition of a literary department to the publication. In this same edition of his paper, Turner publishes an unusual story about the late Baptist giant John Leland,…