134th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2020): Boozing and Bamboozling the Masses in Early America: The Use and Abuse of Alcohol among Native Americans, Sailors, and Politicians

Boozing and Bamboozling the Masses in Early America: The Use and Abuse of Alcohol among Native Americans, Sailors, and Politicians

Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2

Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Concourse H (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)

Chair:

Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State University

Papers:

The Deadly Medicine: The Use of Alcohol in the Exploitation of Indian Labor by Whaling Companies on Eastern Long Island, 1650–1750
John A. Strong, Long Island University

“It’s My Own Damn Fault; or Is It?” Alcohol and the Assignment of Blame in Mid-19th-Century Maritime Songs and Poems
Stephen N. Sanfilippo, Maine Maritime Academy

Drunk in the Chair: The Antebellum Congressional Culture of Drinking and Abstaining in the Capital
Thomas J. Balcerski, Eastern Connecticut State University

Comment:

Bradley Kadel, University of North Carolina at Fayetteville and Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State University

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