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I mentioned last time that--and sort of ended there--
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that in American History we've
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had at least four major reform eras or waves of reform.
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And certainly this is the first.
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In Antebellum America from the 1820s through the 1850s
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all kinds of reform ferment came to the surface.
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Sometimes that was against flogging in the Navy.
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Sometimes it was in utopian experiments and communities.
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Sometimes that was in Women's Rights.
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Sometimes that was in Temperance, which was by far--
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that is the anti-alcohol, anti-booze, anti-demon rum movement--
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Temperance was by far the most widespread American