“The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon only be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corn-cribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.”
─ Reverend Billy Sunday on the first day of Prohibition.
You are about to read an exciting story that the American public has not heard or read about in several decades. About half of the stories in this book have not been in print since the 1920’s. This is a story that involves smuggling, high speed boat chases, pirates, corruption, and scandals.
Those who are familiar with the topic of Prohibition are aware of homemade beer and wine, bathtub gin, moonshine, and other types of homemade alcohol. However, a large percentage of the alcohol Americans drank during those years was imported. The Coast Guard and Customs had the extremely difficult task of preventing liquor from landing on America’s shores and coming across the long, open land borders with Canada and Mexico.
Prohibition’s goal was to prevent the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor to stop alcoholism and social drinking. Prohibition was attempted in Aztec society, ancient China, feudal Japan, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India. However, only a few Muslim countries managed to effectively ban alcohol.
The Prohibition movement in the United States can be traced back to the religious revivalism of the 1820’s and 1830’s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism, including temperance (abstaining from alcohol) and the abolition of slavery. Massachusetts passed a law in 1838, which was repealed two years later, prohibiting the sales of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities. Maine passed the first state Prohibition law in 1846 and many other states soon passed similar laws before the Civil War... to be continued...
─ Reverend Billy Sunday on the first day of Prohibition.
You are about to read an exciting story that the American public has not heard or read about in several decades. About half of the stories in this book have not been in print since the 1920’s. This is a story that involves smuggling, high speed boat chases, pirates, corruption, and scandals.
Those who are familiar with the topic of Prohibition are aware of homemade beer and wine, bathtub gin, moonshine, and other types of homemade alcohol. However, a large percentage of the alcohol Americans drank during those years was imported. The Coast Guard and Customs had the extremely difficult task of preventing liquor from landing on America’s shores and coming across the long, open land borders with Canada and Mexico.
Prohibition’s goal was to prevent the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor to stop alcoholism and social drinking. Prohibition was attempted in Aztec society, ancient China, feudal Japan, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India. However, only a few Muslim countries managed to effectively ban alcohol.
The Prohibition movement in the United States can be traced back to the religious revivalism of the 1820’s and 1830’s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism, including temperance (abstaining from alcohol) and the abolition of slavery. Massachusetts passed a law in 1838, which was repealed two years later, prohibiting the sales of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities. Maine passed the first state Prohibition law in 1846 and many other states soon passed similar laws before the Civil War... to be continued...
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