On this last Thursday of November, many Northerners celebrate a day of Thanksgiving. The day is not yet recognized as a national holiday (this will not take place until next year), but is increasingly recognized as a localized or even statewide event throughout the Northern states. And while Northerners find much for which to be…
While many Northern Baptists are publicly abolitionist in sentiment, this does not mean that all Baptist abolitionists actually view blacks as equal to whites, as demonstrated by a lawsuit in New York over “negroes” sitting in certain pews. The Troubles About the Negro in the Madison-avenue Baptist Church.; SUPERIOR COURT–SPECIAL TERM. Before Justice Barbour. Howell…
Today the First Kansas Colored Infantry, the first African Americans recruited in the Northern states for service in the Civil War, experience their first battlefield engagement. At Island Mound in Missouri’s Bates Country, a detachment of some 225 Kansas African American soldiers clash with five hundred Confederates. Although ten Kansas soldiers are killed and twelve…