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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 19, 1863
A correspondent from the Richmond Daily Dispatch offers personal observations of Baptist life in South Carolina: Since my last I have been rambling a little more in the Palmetto State, and have spent a few days in Georgia, well deserving to be called the Empire State of the South. I was delighted with Anderson and Greenville, in the upper part of South Carolina. They are truly towns of groves and flowers. The latter specially, commanding a view of the distant mountains, and with a river dashing over its rocky bed across the … Read entire article »
Analysis
The Rise of Christian Nationalism
During the American Civil War, many northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians alike, projected God as their … Read more »
Yes, It Was About Slavery …
Baptists and other white Americans North and South during the Civil War-era were unequivocal: secession, the existence … Read more »
… But White Baptists in the South Were Not United
While many if not most white Baptists in the South believed that the enslavement of blacks was … Read more »
The Larger Perspective
Time Line, Battle Summaries and Battlefields
The American Civil War lasted from April 12, 1861 (when Confederates attacked the U.S. Fort Sumter off … Read more »
The Politics of the Civil War
The American Civil War did not occur within a vacuum. Years of political discourse, regional maneuvering, and … Read more »
Religion, Society, Culture, Economy
Outside of the battles and the politics, the American Civil War also took place in the context … Read more »
More Articles
Baptists and the American Civil War: June 18, 1863
The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard the system of American Slavery as a violation of the domestic rights of human nature, and … Read entire article »
Baptists and the American Civil War: June 17, 1863
How are Southern Baptist pastors to support the institution of African slavery? A pastor in Washington, Georgia models the manner in which whites are to minister to slaves, according to a correspondent writing for a Virginia-based Baptist newspaper. A correspondent of the Religious Herald writing from Washington, Ga., gives the following account of the labors of Elder H. A. Tupper, pastor of the church in that place. We could wish that … Read entire article »
Baptists and the American Civil War: June 16, 1863
This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist congregations, yet Bibles are hard to come by in the Confederacy, due to the Union occupation … Read entire article »
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Recommended Works
- A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Genovese)
- Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Wilson)
- Broken Churches, Broken Nations (Goen)
- Chaplain to the Confederacy: B. Manly
- Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
- Creation of Confederate Nationalism (Faust)
- God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Rable)
- Religion and the ACW (Historiography)
- Religion and the American Civil War (Miller, Stout, Reagan)
- Religion in the CW: Northern Perspective (Moorhead)
- Southern Baptists and Blacks, 1845-1895
- The Civil War as Theological Crisis (Noll)
- When Slavery Was Called Freedom (Daly)
Archival Collections (Baptists and the American Civil War)
- American Baptist Historical Society Collection (Mercer University, Atlanta)
- Georgia Baptist History Depository (Mercer University Macon)
- Samford University Special Collections (Birmingham, Alabama)
- South Carolina Baptist Historical Collections (Furman University, Greenville)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Virginia Baptist Historical Society (University of Richmond)