1862 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. September 25 Imprint of the Proclamation in The Baptist Examiner Baptist Bernard Krigstein and Wally Wood

Bernard Krigstein and Wally Wood

perhaps from his wound

by the violence of disease

and remained there until his death in July

preached a sermon urging self-reflection

1862 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. September 25 Imprint of the Proclamation in The Baptist Examiner Baptist Bernard Krigstein and Wally WoodAn exceptional assemblage of The Examiner, one of the most influential Baptist newspapers in antebellum and Civil War America. Northern Baptists were deeply engaged in the slavery controversy, the Southern Baptist Convention having formally split from northern Baptists in 1845 precisely over the question of slaveholding missionaries. By 1862 the northern Baptist press was an active participant in the theological and political debate over emancipation,