⚛️⛓️‍💥🍺🌱♀️ "Atheists and Abolitionists, Vegetarians, Socialists, and Women's Rights Advocates" - The Whole World's Temperance Convention, New York City, 1853  
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New York City  
September 1st and 2nd, 1853  
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Seven and a half years before the US Civil War  
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The Detroit Daily Free Press describes a gathering of:  
  
Atheists and Abolitionists  
Vegetarians  
Socialists  
And Women's Rights Advocates  
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Sound like a good time?  
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This was The Whole World’s Temperance Convention  
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Temperance was a movement to abstain from or ban the sale of alcohol  
  
At the time, people in the United States consumed about 3 times as much alcohol as they do today.  
  
Temperance activists were often motivated by a desire to reduce domestic violence and poverty.  
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Now, the World’s Temperance Convention in May 1853 excluded women from participating.  
  
So, a contingent boycotted it and hosted their own convention.  
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Among the speakers were:  
\- Sojourner Truth  
\- Lucretia Mott  
\- Lucy Stone  
\- William Lloyd Garrison  
\- Susan B. Anthony  
\- Amelia Bloomer  
  
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Most of these temperance activists were also active for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights.  
  
Several dozen of the attendees were active conductors on the Underground Railroad at the time of the conference  
  
Several had signed the women’s rights Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention  
  
Many were also Vegetarian or proto-Vegan.  
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These were people who saw oppressions and resistance as interwoven.  
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On Saturday, September 3rd, the New York Vegetarian Society hosted a banquet  
  
They served vegetarian food and gave speeches  
  
300 people at the dinner. An additional 400 people listened from the gallery.  
  
Dr. James C. Jackson, inventor of granola, gave a speech titled “Total abstinence, Women’s Rights, and Vegetarianism.”  
  
He said that all three of these were interwoven and he was in favor of them all. 

⚛️⛓️‍💥🍺🌱♀️ "Atheists and Abolitionists, Vegetarians, Socialists, and Women's Rights Advocates" 1853