African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 8, 1862

Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor in the South and advocate of Landmarkism, continues his relentless apologetic for African slavery. The Baptist press of the South not infrequently publishes recently-preached sermons upholding slavery. This week, the Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a (lengthy) summary of a pro-slavery sermon preached one week earlier in…

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 11, 1861

The Confederacy, currently comprised of seven states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas) officially adopts the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. The Confederate Constitution differs in a few instances from that of the United States, especially in regards to slavery. Whereas the U.S. Constitution avoided the word “slavery,” the Confederate…