A North Carolina Baptist minister this week rallies the faithful to their patriotic duties, via a stirring newspaper commentary. At a public meeting in Albermarle county, Virginia, the county in which President Jefferson lived and died, the people passed these resolutions: 1. To pay all their tax in kind. 2. To take another tenth from…
Southern Baptist educational institutions are falling upon hard financial times. Many students have marched off to war, while funding is shrinking as the war drags on into winter. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina is among the struggling institutions. The seminary is now scrambling to secure enough funding to remain solvent, while…
Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…