Today’s edition of the South Carolina Confederate Baptist weighs in on two hot issues: slavery and church state separation. Of the former, most white Baptists of the South are largely in agreement that African slavery is God’s will and that blacks are intellectually incapable of handling freedom. The editor of the Confederate Baptist summarizes these…
The Union occupation of Nashville, Tennessee is characterized by much strain and stress in the daily lives of white Southern civilians who remain in the city. The Baptists have been booted from the First Baptist Church facilities, while white locals swap stories of local black freedmens’ (still considered slaves by white Southerners) antics and misdeeds…
For white citizens, New Year’s Day in Augusta, Georgia is filled with hope for the coming months. Augusta, a large and important city in the state, is also the birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC had been founded in 1845 in the city’s First Baptist Church, at a south-wide convention called by leading…