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Atticus G. (Atticus Greene) Haygood
1839–1896
A Methodist minister, educator, and writer from Georgia, he became known for urging a broader, more forward-looking South after the Civil War. His speeches and books helped make him a notable religious voice of the late nineteenth century.
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The Man of Galilee
by Atticus G. (Atticus Greene) Haygood
About the author
Born in Watkinsville, Georgia, in 1839, Atticus Greene Haygood graduated from Emory College in 1859 and soon entered the Methodist ministry. Over the years he worked as an editor, author, and church leader, building a reputation as a thoughtful speaker with strong views on education, religion, and the future of the South.
Haygood served as president of Emory College from 1875 to 1884. He gained national attention around 1880 for a Thanksgiving address and for Our Brother in Black, a book that argued for recognizing the progress and contributions of African Americans after emancipation. That stance made him an important, if sometimes controversial, Southern voice in the years after the Civil War.
Later, he became a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was also connected with wider educational work, including efforts that supported schooling in the South. He died in 1896, but he is still remembered as a minister and public thinker who tried to push Southern society toward reform and wider opportunity.