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  1. Southern Religion
    date November 13, 1865map WASHINGTON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Race-Relations

    In an attempt to legitimatize the institution of slavery, many white slave owners sought justification for their dominating actions within the Bible. They believed they had found it in the Old Testament with the Curse of Ham in Genesis 9:25-27. Cursed be Canaan The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers...Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem May Canaan be the slave of Shem. These southerners believed...

  2. Tennessee Freedmen happy despite poverty and disease
    date February 24, 1870 to February, 1870map COFFEE, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Health/Death

    On a blustery winter day in 1870, a woman traveling through Tennessee surveyed the freedmen preparing their gardens for the early vegetable season atop a bluff along the Elk River. From the bluff she could see freedmen sharecropping cotton for a wealthy doctor who lived in the area. Even though the blacks were desperately poor, she noticed that they were so happy and satisfied with their condition....

  3. Religion in the Old South
    date 1813 to 1825map BUCKINGHAM, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    Religion was a common tie that bound the South together in the early nineteenth century. Evangelical Protestantism became the prominent form of religion in the South. The First Great Awakening occurred between 1730 and 1760 and the Second Great Awakening took place between 1800 and 1830; both of these revivals brought new religions to the forefront and inspired a newfound interest in them. The main...

  4. Religion in the Old South
    date 1813 to 1825map BUCKINGHAM, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    Religion was a common tie that bound the South together in the early nineteenth century. Evangelical Protestantism became the prominent form of religion in the South. The First Great Awakening occurred between 1730 and 1760 and the Second Great Awakening took place between 1800 and 1830; both of these revivals brought new religions to the forefront and inspired a newfound interest in them. The main...

  5. Reverand Glennie Baptizes in Litchfield
    date February 6, 1857map GEORGETOWN, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity

    On February 6, 1857, Reverend Alexander Glennie visited a plantation in Litchfield, South Carolina. On this particular morning, he performed morning services and conducted three adult baptisms. The act of baptism is a vital part of Christianity, and was highly regarded as an important event in one's life during this time. To Christians in South Carolina, and in the general region, to be baptized as...

  6. Lollie Trusts the Lord for Father's Recovery
    date February 11, 1882 to February 12, 1882map PULASKI, Arkansastags Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death

    Lollie Crease Lewis was attending school in the city of Little Rock and blissfully under the impression that her father's health was improving. After she received letters from her mother at home, however, Lewis was concerned to hear that her father's condition had actually not improved at all. Lewis was concerned enough to write to her mother on February 11 and 12, 1882 to see if she should leave school...

  7. The Death of John H. Crease
    date December 15, 1872map PULASKI, Arkansastags Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Education

    News traveled slowly in the late nineteenth-century South, but on occasions such as a death in the family, news traveled faster by way of telegram. John Crease's daughter received a letter from her grandmother expressing her condolences. The grandmother had written the letter on December 15, 1872, when she had received a telegram notifying her of Crease's death. The grandmother assured Crease's daughter...

  8. Guilfield Baptist Church
    date June 30, 1827map DINWIDDIE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity

    The church officials expelled Brother Osborne for his adulterous behavior June 30, 1827. The officials claimed that Brother Osborne's sinful spirit had placed the women of the Guilfield Baptist Church under bad influence. The same Sunday, the church notes documented the deacons asking Sister Harriet Hill to leave the congregation for lying, as well as Sister Patsy Thomas for fighting and inappropriate...