Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

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 wet and sought to disfranchise them, stoking fears of drunken Black men defiling white women in their efforts to reframe alcohol restriction as a means of racial control. Later, as the alcohol industry grew desperate, it turned to Black voters, many of whom joined the brewers to preserve their voting rights and maintain personal liberties. Tracking southern debates about alcohol from the 1880s through the 1930s, Payne shows that prohibition only retreated from the region once the racial and religious order it helped enshrine had been secured.

Excerpt from A Series of Temperance Sermons: Delivered in the City Hall, Lowell, by the Several Clergymen of the City AT the request of the Executive Committee of the Lowell Temperance Union, the several clergymen of the city, during the present season, delivered a series of lectures, on successive Sabbath evenings, upon subjects connected with the Temperance reform. With how great fidelity they discharged this important duty, the reader will be enabled to judge. That these sermons, under God, have been the means of efi'ecting great good, none, who have had the opportunity of observing the results, will deny. The beneficial influences, following them, have not been confined to the great numbers even, to whom they were immediately addressed. They gave an impetus to the Temperance cause that is still onward, and. Will cpntinue onward, it is hoped, till the use of intoxicating drinks ceases from among us. Impressed with a belief that these Sermons may exert a still more widely extended influence, not only in this city but abroad, if given to the public through the press, the Executive Committee have obtained the consent of their authors to their publication. They will all be found in the present volume, with the exception of that of the Rev. Mr. Mclmo'r'r of the Catholic Church, a copy of which the publishers regret could not be had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.