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Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt was a divorced Boston schoolteacher who became the first worldwide missionary for the newly-launched Temperance movement which swept America and the world in the late nineteenth century. Launching herself on virtually non-stop worldwide tours over a decade, including to such far-flung locales as Japan, Australia, India, South America and Turkey, where she crusaded against alcohol and its evils, Leavitt spoke out for other feminist causes like women's suffrage and was a founding member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The American temperance movement…mehr

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Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt was a divorced Boston schoolteacher who became the first worldwide missionary for the newly-launched Temperance movement which swept America and the world in the late nineteenth century. Launching herself on virtually non-stop worldwide tours over a decade, including to such far-flung locales as Japan, Australia, India, South America and Turkey, where she crusaded against alcohol and its evils, Leavitt spoke out for other feminist causes like women's suffrage and was a founding member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The American temperance movement largely began in 1810 with a well-known series of sermons against distilled spirits, delivered by Congregational minister Lyman Beecher. These, later published as Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils and Remedy of Intemperance, ignited a growing chorus from church pulpits against alcohol abuse and urging prohibition. Beecher's sermons later informed the WCTU's prophecies of the ill effects of booze: domestic violence; homelessness; and oppression of women.