Jacob M. C Breaker (1824-1894), born in South Carolina, is a leader among the state’s Southern Baptists. Like most prominent Southern Baptists, he is a member of a wealthy slave-owning family. In Jacob’s childhood years his father, Lewis Frederick Breaker–a wealthy merchant and plantation owner and a deacon at First Baptist Camden, South Carolina–moved the…
Are some white Southern Baptists delusional regarding the war? Less than two months before war broke out between the South and the North, Georgia Baptist Christian Index editor Samuel Boykin, reflecting the excitement of Southern politicians heady with secession fever, envisioned unparalleled greatness for the new Confederate States of America: Expansion, too will be its…
Once again, Southern hopes are dashed. The losses in the Chattanooga Campaign and the retreat southward into Georgia are a bitter blow to the Confederacy as winter closes in. Confronted with the growing likelihood of losing the war, Southern Baptist newspaper editors increasingly focus on spiritual victories taking place within the Confederate Army. Eternity, after…