A most stirring and significant episode
Subtitle: religion and the rise and fall of prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887
By: H. Paul Thompson Jr
Publisher: NIU Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: DeKalb, IL
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780875804583; 9781609090739
Subjects: Temperance; Temperance and religion; African Americans; Prohibition; Religion; Social conditions; Alcohol use; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline; title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : Messengers from the North.; title: "Our enterprise flows from the Gospel of Christ": the evangelical reform nexus roots of nineteenth-century temperance, 1785-1865; title: The message trickles South: introducing the freed people to temperance, 1865-1876; title: The trickle become a flood: Northern temperance targets Southern blacks, 1877-1890; title: Part 2 : Reformers in the South.; title: Taking ownership: Black Atlanta's efforts to institutionalize a temperance-based moral community; title: "The most enthusiastic election ever held in this country": Atlanta's 1885 local option election; title: The "dry" years, 1885-1887; title: Prohibition revisited: Atlanta's 1887 local option election; title: Afterword