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African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 4, 1862

An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…

June 4, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 28, 1861

Samuel Boykin (illustration), editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index newspaper, offers a glowing assessment of the future of the Confederate States of America and African slavery: Our young Confederacy has brilliant prospects ahead. Within it are all the elements of Empire; Staples which move the Commerce of the world, vast amounts of finest timber, and…

February 28, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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