Frederick Douglass, the most prominent African American proponent of abolitionism, has more than a few friends among Baptists of the North. It is with high hopes that many northern Baptists and Christians at large hear or read Douglass’ 4th of July address, entitled “The Slaveholders’ Rebellion” and delivered in New York, here noted in part:…
As battles rage on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Henry Martin Tupper, born in 1831 in Monson, Massachusetts, today graduates from American (Northern) Baptists’ Newton Theological Institution (otherwise known as Newton Seminary). The war may have seemed distant to Tupper during his studies at Newton, but within weeks of graduation, on July…
Unbeknownst to Union Maj. General George B. McClellan, today his months-long offensive against Richmond moves into its final phase. The beginning of the end takes the form of a minor Union offensive action. On the outskirts of Richmond and separated by a strip of forest some 1200 yards wide, Union and Confederate forces since the…