Here’s the Drunk History of Oney Judge, Washington’s slave (\u00a0Drunk History of Orey Judge<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

Chapters 7 and 8 Wilentz have the feel of a parable of greed and redemption. The boisterous lower-class patrons of Bowery Street gain power in the political machine by politicizing their actions, but which spirals out of control in the chaos and loss of the Panic of 1837. It seems that Bowery is the embodiment of the\u00a0Roman Coliseum and the Elizabethan Round Theatre, except that the top tiers held the prostitutes and not the Patricians. This is what the lower classes did when the upper classes were not around.<\/p>\n

Like Ben Hartshorn \u201913 and Michael Lamoureux \u201914, I was left with the impression that Wilentz hit the nail on the head by presenting Bowery Street as a microcosm of the working class in Jacksonian America. I think this microcosm is more believable as a frame of reference for Northern cities than in \u201cShopkeeper\u2019s Millennium\u201d. That said, you see some of the same issues with sustaining the temperance movement on Bowery as you do in Rochester. Joseph Brainerd\u2019s Presbyterian Church, which was determined to help workers to better achieve the fruits of their labor, in 1836 was only 37% new members, and of these 87% were women. Overall, very few masters (14.9%) and even fewer journeymen partook (only Frederick Byrd) (280-81).<\/p>\n

The great difference between Rochester and Bowery is the role of the Unions in temperance. In Rochester, it seemed that the workers didn\u2019t stay around too long to settle down and join a union. In New York, the Unions found an enemy in the Temperance movement. To the Temperance movement, they had become too similar to the drunken Fire Brigades and \u201cbenevolent societies\u201d by creating \u201cfoolish nostrums, panaceas, and social hatreds\u201d and meeting in taverns and porterhouses (283).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the Drunk History of Oney Judge, Washington’s slave (\u00a0Drunk History of Orey Judge\u00a0) Chapters 7 and 8 Wilentz have the feel of a parable of greed and redemption. The boisterous lower-class patrons of Bowery Street gain power in the political machine by politicizing their actions, but which spirals out of control in the chaos … <\/p>\n

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