Emerging from the annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention in Athens are hints that the war will severely disrupt Southern Baptist life and ministries, and an acknowledgment that Southern Baptists’ mission enterprise is dependent upon the profits of slave labor (illustrated is a common scene in Georgia during the Civil War years). The Committee…
Convening in Athens, delegates (all white, all male, and many slaveowners) to the annual Georgia Baptist Convention meeting issue a “Report of the Committee on the present political crisis,” which reads as follows: “Whereas, the state of Georgia, in the legitimate exercise of her sovereignty, has withdrawn from the Confederacy known as the United States…
A news item in the Baltimore Exchange discusses an alleged conversation that Richard Fuller (illustration), the well-known Baptist preacher who at the time is pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, had with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist. Fuller, a pro-slavery advocate, is also president of the slave-centric Southern Baptist Convention. His…