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How did the rival temperance conventions of 1853 help forge an enduring alliance between Prohibition and woman's rights?, documents selected and interpreted by John McClymer

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How did the rival temperance conventions of 1853 help forge an enduring alliance between Prohibition and woman's rights?

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documents selected and interpreted by John McClymer

Women and social movements: scholar's edition

The connections between the temperance and suffrage movements in the post-Civil War era have been frequently studied. Not so for the antebellum period. This document project focuses on two rival temperance conventions of 1853, the all-male World's Temperance Convention and Whole World's Temperance Convention organized in protest of the exclusion of women from the movement. Out of this rivalry grew a working alliance between woman's rights activists, who were often "Ultras" in the parlance of the day, and more conservative male advocates of the Maine Law. In addition to telling a previously overlooked episode in antebellum reform, the project also examines the variety of reformers active in the 1850s