<P> Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries . At the same time, during and after slavery, slaves and free blacks formed their own Spiritual Baptist movements - breakaway spiritual movements which theology often expressed resistance to oppression . </P> <P> In the American South the interpretation of the American Civil War, abolition of slavery and postwar period has differed sharply by race since those years . Like other peoples, Americans have often interpreted great events in religious terms . Historian Wilson Fallin contrasts the interpretation of Civil War and Reconstruction in white versus black memory by analyzing Baptist sermons documented in Alabama . It should be noted that, soon after the Civil War, most black Baptists in the South left the Southern Baptist Convention, reducing its numbers by hundreds of thousands or more . They quickly organized their own congregations and developed their own regional and state associations and, by the end of the 19th century, a national convention . </P> <P> White preachers in Alabama after Reconstruction expressed the view that: </P> <P> God had chastised them and given them a special mission--to maintain orthodoxy, strict biblicism, personal piety, and "traditional" race relations . Slavery, they insisted, had not been sinful . Rather, emancipation was a historical tragedy and the end of Reconstruction was a clear sign of God's favor . </P>

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