Rev. Jesse H. Campbell, Confederate army chaplain appointed by Georgia Baptists, today offers his commentary on the loyalty of African slaves and the evilness of Northern efforts to force freedom upon slaves. When the history of this inhuman and murderous war comes to be written, it will be recorded as a remarkable fact that for…
The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard…
How are Southern Baptist pastors to support the institution of African slavery? A pastor in Washington, Georgia models the manner in which whites are to minister to slaves, according to a correspondent writing for a Virginia-based Baptist newspaper. A correspondent of the Religious Herald writing from Washington, Ga., gives the following account of the labors…