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Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 30, 1861

Georgia has seceded from the Union, and many white Baptist leaders in the state cheer the decision. From the pages of the state Baptist newspaper The Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin lends his supportĀ  – and solicits that of all other Southern Baptists in the state – to Georgia’s formal embracing of the growing Confederate…

January 30, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 16, 1861

Amidst great excitement, Georgia’s secession convention begins. Yet observers are apprehensive that the vote, to be taken later, will be close (such apprehension would prove to be unfounded). The Christian Index weighs in on the issue of slavery and secession, courtesy of editor Samuel Boykin (pictured). Of slavery: “It is plainly perceptible that slavery is…

January 16, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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