Today “The Slave-Martyr,” a poem originally published in The American Baptist, is re-printed in The Anglo-African. The American Baptist is a publication of Northern (American) Baptists, produced weekly by the Utica, New York-based American Baptist Free Mission Society. The society and the publication are self-described as “intensely abolitionist.” The Washington, D.C.-based abolitionist newspaper the National…
Today the African Baptist Church of Darien, Georgia, the oldest black church in the county, is destroyed by the Union 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Regiment and the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers. Most of the town, in fact, is looted and destroyed by the Union troops, under the orders of the 2nd’s commander, Colonel James Montgomery.…
A commentary in today’s Richmond Enquirer declares that the Confederacy, unlike “the Yankee nation,” manifests “the complete absence of religious intolerance.” Northerners, the writer argues, persecute Catholics. This persecution has been evidenced by Northern invaders on Southern soil: We have already seen that a Catholic Church in Florida was wrecked and ruined by regiments from…