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Tag Archives: john henry yates

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 28, 1865

John Henry Yates (1828-1897) was born into slavery in Virginia. Although Virginia law forbade the teaching of slaves to read or write, the children of Yates’ master taught a young Yates how to read. The Bible was his favorite book. As a young man he “married” (marriage being informal for slaves, due to state laws)…

June 28, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 19, 1865

It is two-and-one-half years after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and two months after the war came to an effective end. And on this day, in the far reaches of the old Confederacy, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrives in Galveston, Texas bearing startling news for black persons living in Texas: you…

June 19, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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