Baptist Choir

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The choir of the First African Baptist Church in Bainbridge sings during a worship service in 1976. Music, beginning with the spirituals sung during the years of slavery, has long been an important aspect of the Black Baptist community.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
dec212.

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