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| | Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South - A new book from the University Press of Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | 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. |
| www.upf.com /Spring1999/crowley.html (426 words) |
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