A Most Stirring and Significant Episode : : Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865–1887 / / H. Paul Thompson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 16 halftones
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