Olmsted's Cracker preacher. (Frederick Law Olmstead)

Southern Cultures | September 22, 1998| | Copyright

Frederick Law Olmsted, in his Journal in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), left a vivid picture of the religious life of the common people of the southern back country, which had an incalculable influence on northern opinion in its day and has lingered on in the appraisals of recent historians. After reporting from North Carolina that the poor whites who worked the turpentine forests believed in witchcraft and evil spirits, Olmsted warmed to his task. He provided a lengthy account of a "Cracker" church in Georgia, which he chose to visit instead of the staid Episcopal church ...

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