Worth exploring too are some of the times,
places and people who ran up against these interconnections in awkward ways—I
am thinking of the work of John Quinn on the Irish temperance reformer Father
Mathew, and the difficulties he had in the 1840’s and early 50’s
with the American temperance/anti-slavery leadership on his tours of the
states, who wanted him to condemn slavery and use his pull with Irish-Americans
to influence their perspective on abolitionism.
This is interestingly treated in his book
on Father Mathew, but also more particularly in
The Nation’s Guest: The struggle
between Catholics and Abolitionists to Control Father Mathew’s Tour,
1849-51, his article in US Catholic Historian, Summer, 2004.
Paul Townend
UNC-Wilmington
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Thank you for these
insights and this tip to the collection on the temperance movement, which is
now on my to-do list.
Re the interrelationships of women in abolitionism, temperance, and suffragism,
it is explored in some women's history works -- including mine on
Genni McBride
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Carly Simon
On 6/14/06,
A few years ago in THE SERPENT IN THE BOTTLE, a collection of
essays on American temperance from UMass Press, I published a possibly relevant
article: "Slaves to the Bottle": John Gough and Frederick
In general, American reformers in the nineteenth century seem
to have belonged to the women's movement and the abolition movement AND the
temperance movement. Because of the very odd "repression" of
the last by the vast majority of the hip scholarly community in our time, the
full meaning of these interconnections has never, to my knowledge, been
studied. Until academe derepresses temperance, the situation will not
change until our work makes bigger and bigger dents. Why this
"repression"? I will save my theory for another time.
In my essay, I reconsidered the references to drinking in
I am quite confident, however, about my findings, however
politically incorrect or inconvenient they may be; and at the very least I have
raised an biographical issue about
John W. Crowley, Professor of English, University of
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We're straying slightly from the question here, but I
think one has to be careful about how widely we generalize from sources like
Regarding the whiteness question, an earlier posting mentioned Jon Crush and my
book, Liquor and Labor in
Chuck Ambler
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Frederick
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For what it is worth, I am of the impression that during the period of
American Slavery in the deep south, the slaves were not "permitted"
or at least given alcohol because the slave masters worried about their
behavior when intoxicated. I seem to remember there were exceptions to this on
the plantations but for the most part it was generally desirable to keep
alcohol away from them.
This would certainly lend to a sense of "whiteness" and
privilege in Antebellum Southern American White Culture. I cannot speak to the
Canadian culture...
As for sources, I am on the road and do not have access to sources...
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On May 28, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Robert Campbell wrote:
Hello,
A colleague of mine has asked about secondary literature on
liquor as a white privilege, particularly in the Canadian context. My work
certainly has assumed that privilege, but it does not discuss how access to
alcohol can be part of the process of creating "whiteness."
Regards,
Robert Campbell
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