African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 8, 1862

Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor in the South and advocate of Landmarkism, continues his relentless apologetic for African slavery. The Baptist press of the South not infrequently publishes recently-preached sermons upholding slavery. This week, the Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a (lengthy) summary of a pro-slavery sermon preached one week earlier in…