Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…
In the state where southern treason against the United States began, South Carolina’s Southern Baptists convene in Spartanburg for the second day of their annual meeting. Most white southerners, however, consider the rebellion not as treason, but rather as the proper response of slaveholding states to the perceived hostility of non-slaveholding states and northern…
In Spartanburg, South Carolina prominent state South Carolina Southern Baptists assemble for the annual meeting of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina. The percentage of slaveholders among attendees is much greater than among South Carolina Baptists at large. Prominent Baptists include Basil Manly, James P. Boyce, and John A. Broaddus, all…