The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Association continues today. Gathered in the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, the white Southern Baptist delegates in several resolutions address post-war changes in the South as pertaining to religion. It is “the sense of this organization and its earnest wish,” one resolution reads, “that the Southern Organizations…
The Eighteenth Annual Session of the Baptist State Convention, assembled in the Anderson Baptist Church in Grimes County, wraps up today. The state organization is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 1845 break away from Baptists of the North, in order to preserve black slavery, sealed the inevitability of the Civil War that took…
The Big Creek Baptist Church of South Carolina today issues its first formal statement pertaining to freedpersons: Should “colored members” leave “their former owners without leave, they shall notify the church.” They then “must apply for letters of dismission within the space of six months or their names shall be erased from the church book.”…