The African American Second Baptist Church of Hampton, Virginia was established in the months following the end of the Civil War. This week the congregation makes preparations for a celebration of January 1, 1866, the third anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the first since the effecting of freedom for all blacks with the Union…
In much of the North, Baptist life has returned to as normal as possible in the wake of the war. In the town of Metheun, Massachusetts, the Baptist church today celebrates a semi-centennial anniversary. A discourse delivered by Rev. K. S. Hall offers a brief summary of the church’s history, a narrative that includes a…
Today’s edition of Harper’s Weekly summarizes South Carolina’s Constitutional Convention, which took place in the First Baptist Church of Columbia, the same site of the opening of the 1860 South Carolina Secession Convention: The South Carolina State Convention was convened in the Baptist Church at Columbia at noon September 13. The Convention consisted of 124…