First Women's Temperance Convention

unknown (1891) First Women's Temperance Convention. Women's Penny Paper, 4 (150). p. 745.

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Abstract

The article speaks of the "first women's Temperance convention on record," held in May 1802, when a group of Iroquois women address a council of their chiefs. The women asked for a ban of "spirituous liquors" as alcohol had caused many problems in their communities.

Item Type:	Article
Categories:	1 Genre > 1.19 Miscellaneous 2 Content > 2.9 Health/Medicine 2 Content > 2.10 History 3 Context > 3.1 Abroad 3 Context > 3.6 Meeting 4 Form of Participation > 4.2 Speaker 5 Textualisation of Lecture > 5.2 Excerpt 5 Textualisation of Lecture > 5.4 Mentioned without Title
Number of Pages:	1
URI:	http://victorianlecturing.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1137

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