Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…
The war is the talk of the town in Greenville, South Carolina as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates its second class. Nearly one hundred years later, a historian would thus comment on this day: “When the second commencement of Southern seminary was held on May 27, 1861, great excitement prevailed in the seminary family.…
Arkansas, 25 years old as a state, is on the frontier of the American South. Fort Smith, existent thanks to the U.S. military, represents both the frontier status of the state and the high degree of dependence that Arkansas has upon the federal government. To the west, especially in the Ozarks, dwell white families who…