Today the West New Jersey Baptist Association convenes at Pemberton. As is the case with all the Baptist associations of the North that gather this fall, the war, whether voiced or not in official records, is uppermost on the minds of the men present. Yet in the case of the West New Jersey Baptist Association,…
The Civil War era bisects the early decades of expanding Baptist scholarship North and South. Higher educational opportunities for Baptists of the North were introduced with the founding of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1764, after which more Baptists institutions, both North and South, were birthed in the early nineteenth century. By the…
The effects of the Emancipation Proclamation are rippling throughout the South and the North. In the Confederacy, slaves are escaping from their masters in ever greater numbers and many are now in Union Army uniforms, stationed in Union-controlled areas of the Southern Atlantic seaboard. For their part, slave masters and overseers are forced to keep…