In Georgia, the state’s secession convention continues under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist. Delegates pass a Bill of Rights for white citizens of the new Confederate state. The document both declares that Georgia is a Christian nation, and disallows a religious establishment: The prevalence of the Christian Religion among the people,…
Before a packed sanctuary at the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of the Macon congregation, delivers a sermon defending black slavery as biblical. (The Macon Telegraph printed the sermon in its February 7, 1861 edition.) Warren ties slavery explicitly to the Bible and the will of God, arguing that biblical…
Less than two weeks after Mississippi’s secession from the United States of America, today marks the last entry of four years of “Slave Certificates” in the Record Book Adams County, Mississippi. Slave Certificates are required by Mississippi law, providing proof that slaves brought into Mississippi (typically from the Upper South) for the purpose of sale…