Temperance Reform in the Cotton Kingdom

The study of antebellum reform movements has usually focused upon the North because the hub and the bulk of reform activity was located there, and because Southern states expressed opposition to what they branded as fanatical social ideas, most notably abolition. The prominence of abolition among the varieties of reform, in conjunction with Southern defense of the peculiar institution has contributed to the general conclusion that the reform movements did not penetrate the South, a fact which constituted another important feature of distinctiveness between the two regions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Carlson, Douglas Wiley

• History, United States

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8209551

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70480