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Article: East to West. (visiting various Georgia communities from Augusta to Columbus) (Special Supplement: Georgia's African American Heritage)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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From pre-Revolutionary days through the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, African Americans have left an imprint on Georgia - an imprint that today can be seen from its eastern to its western borders, from Augusta to Columbus.
The Great Awakening, the midth-century 18th-century revivalist ferment that left "burnt-out districts" from New England to the Deep South, opened the gate to bringing African Americans into Christian churches. Baptists and Methodists, in particular, licensed black men to preach, with the result that by the 1770s some African-American preachers were leading their own congregations.
By 1773, the biracial Silver Bluff Baptist ...
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