Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South

by Brendan J. J. Payne

In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches? doctrines, practices, and political engagement. White prohibitionists initially courted Black voters in the 1880s but soon dismissed them as hopelessly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807171484
• ISBN13: 9780807171486
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"