Stringfield, Oliver Larkin
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Stringfield, Oliver Larkin
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Oliver Larkin Stringfield was a Baptist minister, evangelist, educator, and the financial agent responsible for raising critical funds for the Baptist Female University (Meredith College) during its founding period.
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Oliver Larkin Stringfield was a Baptist minister, evangelist, educator, and the financial agent responsible for raising critical funds for the Baptist Female University (Meredith College) during its founding period. Meredith College recognizes and annually honors Stringfield along with Thomas Meredith and Leonidas L. Polk as its founders. His autobiography and biographical sketches are punctuated with Lost Cause themes including tales of “faithful” enslaved persons, Union “atrocities,” and Reconstruction “nightmares.” During the Democratic Party’s 1898 White Supremacy Campaign, Stringfield raised his voice in support of the movement. During an 1898 sermon on foreign religious missions, Reverend Stringfield reportedly “had occasion to refer to negro domination in eastern North Carolina.” According to many witnesses, and widely reported in the press, Stringfield exclaimed, “not one twentieth of the horrors of negro domination has been printed in the papers—it is impossible to print the picture as black as it really is.” In closing his address, he encouraged voters to support the White Supremacy Campaign by urging “the White men in the west to come to the rescue of their brethren in the east at the ballot box in November.”
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9 May 1851
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1 February 1930
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