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CHAPTER I Customs Based on Race Source of Population

CHAPTER II Early Attempts at Regulation by Legislation

Tariffs

Internal Revenue Tax

CHAPTER III Schools and Colleges

CHAPTER IV Bench and Bar

CHAPTER V Church and Clergy

CHAPTER VI Relation of George Washington to the Liquor Traffic

Relation of Other Prominent Americans to the Liquor Traffic

CHAPTER VII The Slave Trade

The Southern Planter

The Indian Tribes

Politics and Elections

Early Defiance of Law

CHAPTER VIII Christenings—Marriages—Funerals

CHAPTER IX Vendues—Chopping Bees—House Bees—Wood Spells—Clearing Bees

Traveling and Taverns

CHAPTER X Extent and Effect of the Traffic at Flood Tide

Whiskey as Money

Temperance Societies