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Baptists and the American Civil War: January 8, 1861

Alabama’s secession convention continues. Accompanying James DeVotie as a secession convention delegate is fellow Baptist Samuel Henderson, Tuskegee pastor and editor of the South Western Baptist state paper. With DeVotie, Henderson is an avowed secessionist. Somewhat of an outlier among Baptists in the South at large, Henderson since the early 1850s has been an advocate…

January 8, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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