He was the chief architect of the withdrawal of Baptists in the South from cooperative fellowship with their northern brethren over the issue of slavery that established the Southern Baptist Convention; and he was instrumental in building a southern alternative to ministerial educational institutions in the North, which he perceived to be increasingly under the influence of abolitionists. Manly was widely recognized as the leading theological apologist for slavery in his day.
He isReverend Dr. Basil Manly Sr.
