"From Abolitionist Roots"

"O save the Black man from the curse of drink: he has become an integral part of our civilization. In saving him we shall save ourselves,' Frederick Douglass thundered in his temperance addresses from the 1870s. 'Whisky arms the hand of violence. It stifles in the white race all ennobling sentiments of justice, kindness and good will,' he wrote later in 1887. 'Few things could do more for the elevation and happiness, or for the welfare of the colored people than the banishment of intoxicating liquors.'"

Mark Lawrence Schrad at Politico discusses "The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism."