In and around the battlefronts of Atlanta and Petersburg (and nearby Richmond), anticipation and apprehension is in the air. News of the Union victory in Mobile Bay is filtering out. With the shuttering of the port of Mobile, the Federals have further tightened their encirclement around the South. The strangling of the Confederacy involves that…
Circulating in the Southern Baptist press this week is a brief piece from a correspondent in the Confederate capital of Richmond who profiles a Baptist leader who has devoted himself to the “religious instruction of our slaves.” In the midst of wide spread indifference toward the religious instruction of our slaves, and the efforts of…
Today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index offers a spirited defense of African slavery while arguing that slaves should at least be allowed to read the Bible, a practice long illegal in some Confederate states. As such, some white Baptists position themselves against a view popular among white Confederates at large that by learning to read, slaves…