Baptists and the American Civil War: Feburary 2, 1861
Delegates to Texas’ secession convention – mostly slaveholders – issue a statement of Declaration of Causes, explaining their reasons for removing the state from the United States of America. Baptists Sam Houston (governor of Texas) and Rufus Burleson (president of Baylor University) disapprove, but many other Baptists in the state support the slaveholders’ decision to…