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Tag Archives: education of freedmen

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 25, 1865

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, during the war a member of the Confederate States House of Representatives and an officer in the Confederate Army, is a prominent Southern Baptist. Now, he serves as the president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and of Baptists’ Howard College. In January 1866 he is ordained to the Baptist ministry.…

November 25, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 21, 1865

Today leading freedmen of South Carolina gather in Charleston for the first Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina. In the heart of the old Confederacy, they meet in Zion Presbyterian Church. Many Baptists are among those present. The intent of the convention is to begin charting a positive course forward for African…

November 21, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 21, 1865

The victory of the United States over the Confederacy and subsequent emancipation of remaining slaves in the South has brought an end to decades-old Southern laws mandating the supervision of black churches by whites. Freed from such constraints, the African American Ebenezer Baptist Church in Richmond installs Rev. Peter Randolph (1825-1897) as the congregation’s first…

May 21, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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