Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, identifies slavery as the main issue between North and South, equates black slavery with God’s purposes and the Christian faith, and calls upon white Southern Baptists to defend slavery and support the Confederacy. In so doing, Boykin voices Christian Nationalism, linking the Confederacy and the Church as…
While Southern Baptist leaders, most of whom are slaveholders, are generally strong supporters of slavery and the Confederacy, common Baptists are more diverse. The differences among common Baptists are to a significant degree attributed to socio-economic factors; non-slaveholding whites tend to be poorer and less enthusiastic advocates of slavery, and Baptists are no exception. Waitman…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, over the objection of some advisors, decides to attempt to resupply Fort Sumter on April 6. The die is cast. Lincoln knows that Confederate forces in Charleston will resist the resupply efforts, which in turn could well lead to the formal beginnings of the war that is inevitable. Meanwhile, Mississippi…