Religion, long woven into the fabric of the South prior to the war, was used an ideological weapon against the abolitionist North decades before the war began. More to the point, white religion is that which has served to uphold the moral and biblical righteousness of white supremacy and African slavery while creating a Christian…
As the magnitude of the Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sink into the public consciousness of the South, Christian Index editor and Southern Baptist journalist Samuel Boykin offers his perspective on the crisis at hand, emphatically declaring the inevitable triumph of Southern white supremacy. [The Crisis of our National Affairs] Is undoubtedly upon us,…
An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…