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The Drunkard, by Frank O’Connor. It was a terrible blow to Father when Mr. Dooley on the terrace died. Mr. Dooley was a commercial traveller with two sons in the Dominicans and a car of his own, so socially he was miles ahead of us, but he had no false pride. Mr. Dooley was an intellectual, and, like all intellectuals the thing he loved best ...
The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism . Through a series of vignettes it shows how a single drink starts an arc that ends in suicide.
Douglass viewed such controlled promotion of drunkenness (via such rituals as drinking contests) as a way to keep the slave in “a state of perpetual stupidity” and “disgust the slave with his freedom” (February 18, 1846 Glascow Speech).
8 lut 2021 · Why the Drunkard’s Path? What did this pattern mean to those on the Underground Railroad? It meant that the area they were heading into was full of people hunting for them with dogs. The advice was to remind them to travel more in a zig-zag line so they could not be tracked as easily by the dogs.
ground: Quakers had always been active in both the anti-slavery and temperance movements, and, like other nonconformists, accepted that in matters of conscience women had autonomy to act on their beliefs. After her marriage, all her works that carry an author's name are attributed to 'Mrs Ellis', and she continued with
Inspired by the cautionary engravings “A Harlot’s Progress” and “A Rake’s Progress” by the English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764), “The Drunkard’s Progress” shows four scenes of an alcoholic’s path to ruin: “The Morning Dram,” “The Grog Shop,” “The Confirmed Drunkard,” and “Concluding Scene.”
This political cartoon from 1846 showed the progress of an individual from taking one drink to a slide into alcoholism and ruin. Transcript of "The Drunkard's Progress".
