As the spring campaigns move into late May with no significant victories on the part of the Confederacy, the rhetoric over black slavery, the cause of the war as long acknowledged South and North, escalates. White Baptist leaders in the South, banking on the South’s antebellum foundation of white supremacy, work hard to keep white…
By proclamation of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, many Baptists and other Christians today (a Friday) gather in their houses of worship to offer special prayer for the Confederacy, a nation now reeling from Union advances in Virginia and the deep South. Davis’s proclamation is as follows: To the People of the Confederate States of America:…
Recent military reversals worry Southern Baptists as much as their fellow countrymen. A commentary in the Baptist press this week offers much-needed assurance and vows defiance. In times of war, victory and defeat follow each other, and rejoicing and sorrow are mingled like light and shade in a picture. A few days since, the Southern…