Author: Pulaski Association of Primitive Baptists (Ga.)
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Harmony Primitive Baptist Association (Ga.)
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Mark V. Wetherington
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: T. Michael Parrish
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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Author: John G. Crowley
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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"A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South. Expands our knowledge of an often neglected group."--Bill Leonard, Dean, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University Between 1819 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged as a distinct, dominant religious group in the area of the deepest South known as the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest aspects of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture. Crowley begins by examining Old Baptist worship and discipline and then addressing Primitive Baptist reaction to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, the Depression, and finally the ferment of the 1960s and present decline of the denomination. Intensely conservative, with a strong belief in predestination, Old Baptists opposed modernizing trends sweeping their denomination in the early 19th century. Crowley describes their separation from Southern Baptists and the many internal schisms on issues such as the saving role of the gospel, the Two Seed Doctrine, and absolute as opposed to limited predestination. Going beyond doctrine, he discusses contention among Old Baptists over music, divorce, membership in secret societies, sacraments administered by heretics, and rituals such as the washing of feet. Writing with insight and sensitivity, he navigates the history of this denomination through the 20th century and the emergence of at least twenty mutually exclusive factions of Primitive Baptists in this specific region of the Deep South.

Author: Primitive Baptist Association
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Alabaha River Primitive Baptist Association (Ga.)
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Marjorie Lyle Crandall
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Marjorie Crandall
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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