US EditionDocument Discovered in Massachusetts Shows Baptist Ministers Took Early Stand Against Slavery
GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUL 11 – The 1847 declaration opposing slavery was signed 14 years before the Civil War and is now being restored for public display, church officials said.
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Document discovered in Massachusetts shows Baptist ministers took early stand against slavery
By Courtney Cole Click here for updates on this story GROTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The document was written in 1847 and signed by 16 Baptist ministers. “They wanted to go on record as saying that they were against slavery,” says Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts. “They though…
Discovery of 1847 Condemnation of Slavery by Baptist Ministers Shows Development of Anti-Slavery Movement - The Reconstruction Era
As readers of Civil War history know, prior to the outbreak of the war many religious people in the North had turned against slavery. Northern criticism of slavery had become so predominant that the Baptist church in the United States split when proslavery forces created the breakaway Southern Baptist Convention. A newly discovered document adds to the story of this religious crack in the Baptist denomination. A layperson at a Baptist church in…
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