U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s Baptist upbringing years ago imprinted upon him the moral and biblical wrongness of slavery. Following Lincoln’s presidential victory in 1860, white Southern Baptists and other Southern white religious and political leaders have made a habit of mocking Lincoln as the “black president,” so certain are they that his ultimate goal as…
Mundane events reveal interesting details of Baptist life in the Confederate capital of Richmond, such as the following news account: Bob, slave of Captain Jackson Warner, hired as nurse at the Baptist Female Institute, was taken in custody, on Saturday, and lodged in prison, by the Military police, for stealing a pocket-book containing $85 in…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln continues his gradual but relentless public push for emancipation, today asking the border states to embrace compensated emancipation. Gentlemen. After the adjournment of Congress, now very near, I shall have no opportunity of seeing you for several months. Believing that you of the border-states hold more power for good than any…