A most stirring and significant episode : religion and the rise and fall of prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887 /
Thompson, H. Paul.
DeKalb, Ill. : NIU Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Our enterprise flows from the Gospel of Christ": the evangelical reform nexus roots of nineteenth-century temperance, 1785-1865 -- The message trickles South: introducing the freed people to temperance, 1865-1876 -- The trickle become a flood: Northern temperance targets Southern blacks, 1877-1890 -- Taking ownership: Black Atlanta's efforts to institutionalize a temperance-based moral community -- "The most enthusiastic election ever held in this country": Atlanta's 1885 local option election -- The "dry" years, 1885-1887 -- Prohibition revisited: Atlanta's 1887 local option election.
Prohibition
Temperance
Temperance and religion
African Americans
African Americans
African Americans