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Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow - Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South (Hardcover)
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Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow - Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South (Hardcover)
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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.
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