More Historic Rural Churches of Georgia

Seals, Sonny

ISBN 10: 0820373354 / ISBN 13: 9780820373355

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820373354
• ISBN 13: 9780820373355
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This much anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (2016) documents even more rural churches and communities founded prior to 1900 throughout the Peach State. With more than 250 stunning color images, the new volume chronicles the historical, community, religious, and architectural significance of fifty new sites, while simultaneously calling for their historic preservation when possible.

The book includes special focus on African American churches pre- and post-Emancipation, with a foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young. In his foreword, Ambassador Young reflects on the central role of the Black church in his life, writing, “As I look back, my experience in these rural church assignments was the basis for my understanding of racial inequality in the South and my deeply held conviction to do something about it. It prepared me for the long struggle that was to come.” In addition to this important foreword, scholars Doug E. Thompson and Noel Leo Erskine add significant historical context in their introductory essay.

About the Author

Sonny Seals (Author)
SONNY SEALS is the coauthor, with George S. Hart, of the award-winning Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (Georgia), published in 2016. Also with George S. Hart, he is a cofounder of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 for the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia’s most historic and architecturally significant rural churches. Seals is a graduate of Georgia Tech and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.