Americana Ebrietatis
by Hewson L. Peeke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Peeke, Hewson L. (Hewson Lindsley), 1861-1942
- Title
- Americana Ebrietatis The Favorite Tipple of our Forefathers and the Laws and Customs Relating Thereto
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
- Subject
- Drinking customs -- United States
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45177
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45177
- Release Date
- March 20, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AMERICANA EBRIETATIS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.CHAPTER I Customs Based on Race Source of Population
- 4.CHAPTER II Early Attempts at Regulation by Legislation — Tariffs — Internal Revenue Tax
- 5.CHAPTER III Schools and Colleges
- 6.CHAPTER IV Bench and Bar
- 7.CHAPTER V Church and Clergy
- 8.CHAPTER VI Relation of George Washington to the Liquor Traffic — Relation of Other Prominent Americans to the Liquor Traffic
- 9.CHAPTER VII The Slave Trade — The Southern Planter — The Indian Tribes — Politics and Elections — Early Defiance of Law
- 10.CHAPTER VIII Christenings—Marriages—Funerals
- 11.CHAPTER IX Vendues—Chopping Bees—House Bees—Wood Spells—Clearing Bees — Traveling and Taverns
- 12.CHAPTER X Extent and Effect of the Traffic at Flood Tide — Whiskey as Money — Temperance Societies
- 13.Transcribers' Notes
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