Background
HUME, Thomas was born on October 21, 1836 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of the Baptist clergyman Thomas Hume and his wife Mary Ann (Gregory).
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HUME, Thomas was born on October 21, 1836 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of the Baptist clergyman Thomas Hume and his wife Mary Ann (Gregory).
Private school, southern university.
He attended Virginia Collegiate Institute, Richmond College, and the University of Virginia. He became a Baptist minister. On October 31, 1878, he married Ann Louise Whitescarver, by whom he had four children.
Hume taught French and English at Chesapeake Female College before the Civil War. When the war began, he volunteered for service in the Confederate Army. A staunch Democrat and secessionist, he served as chaplain of the 3rd Virginia Regiment and was official pastor to the Confederate hospitals at Petersburg during the war.
After the war, he was principal of Petersburg Classical Institute in the 1860s, president of Roanoke College from 1876 to 1885, and professor of English literature at the University of North Carolina in 1885.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Spouse Ann Louise Whitescarver.