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A concern with beverage alcohol in black society has a long history. Frederick Douglass (1892) saw alcohol as a means masters used to control their slaves during holiday seasons, although Genovese, in his Roll, Jordan, Roll (1976) notes that slaves were also concerned about drunkenness in their masters. After emancipation, historians note, whiskey was often served at social events in order to manipulate the black vote in the South (Franklin, 1974). Alcohol seems also to have served as a device for kee** Blacks in their proverbial Southern place (Lee, 1944) and Southern prohibitionists tried to use the weak support for prohibition among Blacks as a cause for disenfranchisement (Walton, 1970; Wharton, 1947). Such attempts recall earlier Southern efforts to deny rights of state residency if an emancipated slave used alcohol (Guild, 1939). Some contemporary authors continue to suggest that alcohol, alcoholism, and arrests for alcohol-related behaviors are still some means employed by a “White” establishment to control “Blacks” (see Staples, 1976).1
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Gaines, A.D. (1985). Alcohol. In: Bennett, L.A., Ames, G.M. (eds) The American Experience with Alcohol. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0530-7_11
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