Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from the seven seceded Deep South slave states – South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas – officially form the Confederate States of America. With this act, the likelihood of open warfare between the South and the North is effectively sealed. The seceding states draft a provisional constitution…
In Georgia, the state’s secession convention continues under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist. Delegates pass a Bill of Rights for white citizens of the new Confederate state. The document both declares that Georgia is a Christian nation, and disallows a religious establishment: The prevalence of the Christian Religion among the people,…
Georgia’s secession convention continues, under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown (illustration), currently the most prominent Southern Baptist in the state. Secession delegates yesterday agreed to send ten representatives to a convention of slaveholding states scheduled for February 4. Today, delegates pass a resolution appointing the ten representatives to carry a proposal to the slaveholding…