Far from the South, today in Indianapolis is the inaugural gathering of the State Convention of the Colored People of Indiana. Many Baptists are among those present. Delegates note that the Declaration of Independence “declares life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as “inalienable rights of all men,” rights for which colored men “have fought,…
Baptists formally arrived in Lake County, Indiana in the 1830s. A Baptist Sunday School was established at Cedar Lake in 1839. In the years following Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians have worked together in the task of conducting Sunday School. Today a “few superintendents, teachers and friends of Sunday-schools in Lake County” meet at Crown Point…
The post-war exodus of former slaves from the South to the North is already in progress. They follow paths trod by hundreds of thousands who fled to freedom during the war. In Indiana, Evansville, just across the Ohio River from Kentucky, is a top destination for freedmen from the South. Today former slaves who have…