A Most Stirring and Significant Episode
A Most Stirring and Significant Episode

Author: H. Paul Thompson, Jr.

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1501756672

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When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the United States to do so. A Most Stirring and Significant Episode examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible—as well as the forces that resulted in its 1887 reversal well before the 18th Amendment to the Constitution created a national prohibition in 1919. H. Paul Thompson Jr.'s research also sheds light on the profoundly religious nature of African American involvement in the temperance movement. Contrary to the prevalent depiction of that movement as being one predominantly led by white, female activists like Carrie Nation, Thompson reveals here that African Americans were central to the rise of prohibition in the south during the 1880s. As such, A Most Stirring and Significant Episode offers a new take on the proliferation of prohibition and will not only speak to scholars of prohibition in the US and beyond, but also to historians of religion and the African American experience.

Pathways to Prohibition
Pathways to Prohibition

Author: Ann-Marie E. Szymanski

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-08-21

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780822331698

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Moonshiners and Prohibitionists
Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

Author: Bruce E. Stewart

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2011-04-22

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0813140099

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A “masterly study” of how the business of homemade liquor shaped the history and culture of a region (Journal of American History). Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians—was banned. Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region’s early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. It analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord—and also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. “A much-needed contribution to our understanding of the complex social, economic, religious, and cultural issues underlying the prohibition impulse that swept the South between 1880 and 1920.” ―Journal of Southern History

Elements of Debating
Elements of Debating

Author: Leverett S. Lyon

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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'Elements of Debating' is a practical manual for high school and academy students who are learning the basics of debate. The book covers the requirements of successful debating, determining and proving issues, as well as using evidence and refutation in debates. A great guidebook that provides insight into how much debating has changed and yet, remained the same in some ways since the 19th century.

The Gospel Working Up
The Gospel Working Up

Author: Beth Barton Schweiger

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0195111958

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This book offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Unlike previous scholars, who examined Southern Protestantism as only a proslavery and pro-Confederate ideology, Schweiger takes a wider view and finds a broad transformation of the social and cultural context of religious experience in the region. She traces several major themes, such as the contrast between rural and urban experience, or the Methodist and Baptist schisms of the 1840's through the lives and careers of 800 clergy.