Today's American Minute — Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience
Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer
Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience
Francis L. Hawks wrote in Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America (1836): "No dissenters in Virginia experienced for a time harsher treatment than the Baptists ... They were beaten and imprisoned ... Cruelty taxed ingenuity to devise new modes of punishment and annoyance."