To date, seven southern states have seceded from the union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Dozens of Baptists have played significant roles in events thus far, including as governors of two of the seven seceding states: Georgia (Joseph Brown, secessionist) and Texas (Sam Houston, Unionist). In addition, many Southern and Primitive…
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…
Georgia has seceded from the Union, and many white Baptist leaders in the state cheer the decision. From the pages of the state Baptist newspaper The Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin lends his support – and solicits that of all other Southern Baptists in the state – to Georgia’s formal embracing of the growing Confederate…