The Chowan Baptist Association of North Carolina meets and issues the following resolution in support of the Confederate States of America: Resolutions adopted by the Chowan Baptist Association, of the State of North Carolina, at its fifty-fifth annual session, on the 16th day of May, 1861. (1) Resolved, That this body concurs in the suggestion…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates to the Deep South slaveholding states’ convention work in earnest to establish the legal and judicial basis of the new Confederate States of America, as well as to select a president for the new nation. The preservation of African (black) slavery is foundational and central to the identity of the Confederacy.…