Contents

Acknowledgments

Timeline

Frequently Used Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I—Messengers from the North

1—“Our Enterprise Flows from the Gospel of Christ”

The Evangelical Reform Nexus Roots of Nineteenth-Century Temperance, 1785–1865

2—The Message Trickles South

Introducing the Freed People to Temperance, 1865–1876

3—The Trickle Becomes a Flood

Northern Temperance Targets Southern Blacks, 1877–1890

Part II—Reformers in the South

4—Taking Ownership

Black Atlanta’s Efforts to Institutionalize a Temperance-Based Moral Community

5—“The Most Enthusiastic Election Ever Held in This Country”

Atlanta’s 1885 Local Option Election

6—The “Dry” Years, 1885–1887

7—Prohibition Revisited

Atlanta’s 1887 Local Option Election

Afterword

Appendix I: Biographical Sketches of Key Personalities

Appendix II: Regulating Atlanta’s Liquor Industry, 1865–1907

Notes to Introduction

Notes to Chapter 1
“Our Enterprise Flows from the Gospel of Christ”

Notes to Chapter 2
The Message Trickles South

Notes to Chapter 3
The Trickle Becomes a Flood

Notes to Chapter 4
Taking Ownership

Notes to Chapter 5
“The Most Enthusiastic Election Ever Held in This Country”

Notes to Chapter 6
The “Dry” Years, 1885–1887

Notes to Chapter 7
Prohibition Revisited

Notes to Afterwords

Notes to Appendix II

Works Cited

Index