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African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 5, 1862

Week to week, white Southern Baptists are busy defending African slavery and denigrating the United States for attempting to thwart God’s express will for the African race. Several items in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index focus on this very theme. One article castigates Northern Baptists for their duplicity in such decidedly ungodly doings, by…

August 5, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 2, 1862

While white Southerners carry on about the sins and evilness of the North, the Confederacy, albeit God’s chosen nation in the minds of many, is not without fault. An article in a Southern Baptist newspaper this week offers an analysis of the shortcomings of the South. Everybody is crying out against extortion, and every one…

August 2, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 24, 1862

This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…

July 24, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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