Temperance | Slavery: Two Points of View | Opponents of Slavery
Slave or Free? | Writing Virginia’s History

Temperance was one of the most important moral reform movements in the nineteenth century. Temperance campaigns often stressed the injury that drunkenness did to families. Many women supported temperance or other reforms for that reason and thereby influenced political campaigns and legislation.

“Appeal to the women of Staunton: the saloons of Staunton cannot prosper in the future without raw materials—boys—your boy or mine.” 1900–1919. Broadside. The Library of Virginia.

Map of Virginia—"Wet" and "Dry" and Comparative "Wet" and "Dry" 1909. Lithograph. The Library of Virginia