Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement

by Joe L. Coker

Book Overview

In the late 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed contemporary troubles -- everything from poverty to political corruption to violence between African Americans and whites -- sprang from the bottles of "demon rum" regularly consumed in the South. Though temperance quickly gained support in the antebellum North, Southerners cast a skeptical eye on the movement, because of its ties with antislavery efforts. Postwar evangelicals quickly realized they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813124719
• ISBN13: 9780813124711
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher