"A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South.
John Crowley, a historian and former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into South Georgia and Flori.
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. "A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South