Title Moral reconstruction : Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 / Gaines M. Foster.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	An examination and analysis of the appetite and avarice that led religious organizations to call for moral legislation to regulate such activities as sexuality, divorce, and gambling. This account underscores the role of white southerners who seized on these new laws to control African Americans.
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Subject	Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Christianity and politics.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Christian ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Christian ethics.
	Law and ethics -- History -- 19th century.
	Law and ethics.
	Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Christian ethics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Law and ethics -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Foster, Gaines M. Moral reconstruction. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 0807826979 (DLC) 2001059764 (OCoLC)48796001
ISBN	0807860166 (electronic book)
	9780807860168 (electronic book)
	0807826979 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780807826973 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0807853666 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780807853665 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title Moral reconstruction : Christian lobbyists and the Federal legislation of morality, 1865-1920 / Gaines M. Foster.

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