The Georgia Secession Convention adopts a new state constitution (to be ratified by voters in July) and then adjourns. Article II, Section VII of the Constitution deals with the issue of slavery: 1. The importation or introduction of negroes from any foreign country, other than the slave-holding States or Territories of the United States of…
Delegates to Texas’ secession convention – mostly slaveholders – issue a statement of Declaration of Causes, explaining their reasons for removing the state from the United States of America. Baptists Sam Houston (governor of Texas) and Rufus Burleson (president of Baylor University) disapprove, but many other Baptists in the state support the slaveholders’ decision to…
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,…