As in each month following the war thus far, this month many autonomous black Baptist congregations are founded. One is in Birmingham, Alabama. Most likely the white members of the white-led church that the freedmen had been forced to attend as slaves, are happy for their black members to depart. Their leaving ensures that they…
Mere days after the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution eradicating slavery throughout the nation, white citizens of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Old Confederacy, remain defiant in defending white supremacy and black subservience. In many homes, however, fathers are absent, having lost their lives during the war. Thus the…
This month the Holston Baptist Association of Tennessee passes a resolution asking that pro-Confederate Baptist churches apologize for their sin of supporting the Confederacy: “The war was wrong, … and it has caused the troubles which are existing in the Baptist churches. Therefore, we would recommend that all members who voted for separation, or voluntarily…