Atticus G. Haygood, Sermons & Speeches, Southern Methodist, Emory College Pres

Haygood, Atticus G. Sermons and Speeches. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883. First Edition. [10519] Brown cloth decorated in black & gilt, spine ends and corner tips worn, joints good, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. 428 generally clean pp., tight; a few small marginal stains. Good. Hardcover. This volume includes the two sermons on The New South, and The Negro a Citizen. Haygood was the agent for the John F. Slater Fund from 1883 to 1890, a philanthropic organization that promoted education among freedmen of the South. Atticus Greene Haygood, D.D. (1839-1896), b. Watkinsville, Georgia; d. Oxford, Georgia. Rev. Haygood was “president of Emory College, Georgia, was born in Clark Co., Ga., Nov. 19, 1839; converted in early childhood, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1854; was licensed to preach in 1858, and graduated at Emory College in 1859. The same year he was received on trial in the Georgia Annual Conference, and served on various stations a