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- catalog abstract "" Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality." -- Provided by publisher.".
- catalog contributor b12518663.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "" Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality." -- Provided by publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.".
- catalog description "The antebellum moral polity -- Christ and prohibition in the Constitution? -- Sexuality and the family -- Appetite, avarice-- and an alliance -- The Sabbath and religious authority -- The lottery and the South -- A broad agenda of moral legislation -- Aligning the government against alcohol -- The final step : prohibition.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 318 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Moral reconstruction.".
- catalog identifier "0807826979 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807853666 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Moral reconstruction.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Moral reconstruction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "322.4/4/097309034 21".
- catalog subject "BR517 .F59 2002".
- catalog subject "Christian ethics United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Christian ethics United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and politics United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and politics United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Law and ethics History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Law and ethics History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The antebellum moral polity -- Christ and prohibition in the Constitution? -- Sexuality and the family -- Appetite, avarice-- and an alliance -- The Sabbath and religious authority -- The lottery and the South -- A broad agenda of moral legislation -- Aligning the government against alcohol -- The final step : prohibition.".
- catalog title "Moral reconstruction : Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 / Gaines M. Foster.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".