Posted on June 16, 2010 by Jenny ONeill
The Washingtonians and the Nineteenth-Century Temperance Movement in Westport
Temperance – the campaign to curtail the consumption of alcohol – was an important reform movement in the 19th century. Westport had a number of active temperance groups, and one of the most effective and controversial was the Washingtonians, who shot to prominence in 1840, only to be crowded out by competing abstinence groups by […]
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