SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Worshipping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, 1899-1922' examines the failure of prohibition at the local level. Savannah’s citizens determined to quench their thirst in defiance of state and subsequently national law. In the process, they received unofficial sanction of the local government, whose leaders refused to criminalize the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Prohibitionists could not use their significant organizational ability and lobbying to compel enforcement. Their efforts demonstrated not only the weakness of the state executive but more importantly the real power held by local governments.
Publication Date
2017-04-11
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
1
Issue
2
First Page
109
Last Page
140
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
March 2017
Embargo Period
2024-09-27
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Denmark, Lisa
(2017)
"Worshipping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, 1899-1922,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol1/iss2/2
