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Tag Archives: southern wealth

African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 16, 1864

Religion, long woven into the fabric of the South prior to the war, was used an ideological weapon against the abolitionist North decades before the war began. More to the point, white religion is that which has served to uphold the moral and biblical righteousness of white supremacy and African slavery while creating a Christian…

April 16, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 22, 1862

On the eve of the war, the South had more millionaires than did the North, all of whom (in the South) were large slave owners. Reflecting this reality, in 1860 the twelve wealthiest counties in the United States were all in the South. Southern elites — large to mid-size slave owners and their families —…

October 22, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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