By Joe L. Coker
Within the past due 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed modern troubles―everything from poverty to political corruption to violence among African american citizens and whites―sprang from the bottles of "demon rum" frequently fed on within the South. notwithstanding temperance quick received aid within the antebellum North, Southerners solid a skeptical eye at the circulation, due to its ties with antislavery efforts. Postwar evangelicals fast learned they'd to make temperance beautiful to the South through reworking the yank ethical reform move into whatever suitable with southern values and tradition. In Liquor within the Land of the misplaced reason: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition flow, Joe L. Coker examines the strategies and result of temperance reformers among 1880 and 1915. even though their denominations routinely forbade the preaching of politics from the pulpit, an outgrowth of evangelical fervor led ministers and their congregations to sound the decision for prohibition. made up our minds to avoid wasting the South from the evils of alcohol, they performed on southern cultural attitudes approximately politics, race, ladies, and honor to speak their message. The evangelicals have been profitable of their strategy, negotiating such political stumbling blocks as public disapproval the church's position in politics and vehement competition to prohibition voiced via Jefferson Davis. The evangelical neighborhood effectively confident the general public that affordable liquor within the arms of African American "beasts" and drunkard husbands posed a significant chance to white girls. ultimately, the code of honor that depended upon alcohol-centered hospitality and camaraderie used to be redefined to prefer those that lived as Christians and supported the prohibition circulate. Liquor within the Land of the misplaced reason is the 1st complete survey of temperance within the South. via tailoring the prohibition message to the original context of the yankee South, southern evangelicals reworked the zone right into a hotbed of temperance job, top the nationwide prohibition stream.
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