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- The Washingtonian movement (Washingtonians, Washingtonian Temperance Society or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) was a 19th-century temperance fellowship founded on Thursday, April 2, 1840, by six alcoholics (William Mitchell, David Hoss, Charles Anderson, George Steer, Bill M'Curdy, and Tom Campbell) at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The idea was that by relying on each other, sharing their alcoholic experiences, and creating an atmosphere of conviviality, they could keep each other sober. Total abstinence from alcohol (teetotalism) was their goal. The group taught sobriety and preceded Alcoholics Anonymous by almost a century. Members sought out other "drunkards" (the term alcoholic had not yet been created), told them their experiences with excessive alcohol use, and how the Society had helped them achieve sobriety. With the passage of time the Society became a prohibitionist organization in that it promoted the legal and mandatory prohibition of alcoholic beverages. The Society was the inspiration for Timothy Shay Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians and his Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. The Washingtonians differed from other organizations in the temperance movement in that they focused on the individual alcoholic rather than on society's greater relationship with liquor. In the mid-19th century, a temperance movement was in full sway across the United States and temperance workers advanced their anti-alcohol views on every front. Public temperance meetings were frequent and the main thread was prohibition of alcohol and pledges of sobriety to be made by the individual. Concurrent with this movement, a loose network of facilities both public and private offered treatment to drunkards. Referred to as inebriate asylums and reformatory homes, they included the New York State Inebriate Asylum, The Inebriate Home of Long Island, N.Y., the Home for Incurables in San Francisco, the Franklin Reformatory Home in Philadelphia and the Washingtonian Homes which opened in Boston and Chicago in 1857. Washingtonians at their peak numbered in the tens of thousands, possibly as high as 600,000. However, in the space of just a few years, this society almost disappeared because they became fragmented in their primary purpose, becoming involved with all manner of controversial social reforms including prohibition, sectarian religion, politics and abolition of slavery. It is believed that Abraham Lincoln attended and spoke at one of the great revivals, presumably not for treatment, but out of interest in various issues being discussed. The Washingtonians drifted away from their initial purpose of helping the individual alcoholic, and disagreements, infighting, and controversies over prohibition eventually destroyed the group. The Washingtonians became so thoroughly extinct that, some 50 years later in 1935 when William Griffith Wilson ("Bill") and Dr. Robert Smith ("Dr. Bob") joined together in forming Alcoholics Anonymous, neither of them had ever heard of the Washingtonians. Although comparisons are made between the Washingtonians and Alcoholics Anonymous, in some respects they have more in common with modern secular drug addiction recovery groups. The Washingtonians were so non-religious and non-spiritual that religious critics accused them of humanism heresy, i.e., in their terms, of "placing their own power above the power of God". (en)
- Washingtons Helnykterhetssällskap (Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) var en amerikansk nykterhetsförening, bildad den 2 april 1840, på Chase's Tavern, Liberty Street, Baltimore av sex f d alkoholister: , , , , och . Deras mål var att, genom kamratstöd och gudomlig hjälp, fortsatt hålla sig helnyktra. Innan jul hade man sänt nykterhetsförkunnare till New York och Cincinnati och snart spreds rörelsen över USA med förbluffande snabbhet och entusiasm. Tusentals människor samlades till stora väckelsemöten och redan efter ett år hade 600 000 människor avlagt personliga nykterhetslöften. Lokala Washingtonian-grupper (för män) och Martha Washington-grupper (för kvinnor) sköt upp som svampar ur jorden, men de var mycket löst organiserade och någon nationell paraplyorganisation kom aldrig till stånd. Samtidigt som denna rörelse uppstod ett löst nätverk av (både privat och offentligt finansierade) hjälpinrättningar för alkoholister, kallade "asyler" eller "reformhus". Bland dessa fanns t.ex. Washingtonian Homes, som 1857 öppnades i Boston och Chicago. Washingtonian-rörelsen upplöstes snart på grund av bristande organisationsvana och splittring men enskilda medlemmar förde vidare nykterhetsarbetet i andra nykterhetsorganisationer som Nykterhetens söner och Jerikos riddare. (sv)
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- The Washingtonian movement (Washingtonians, Washingtonian Temperance Society or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) was a 19th-century temperance fellowship founded on Thursday, April 2, 1840, by six alcoholics (William Mitchell, David Hoss, Charles Anderson, George Steer, Bill M'Curdy, and Tom Campbell) at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The idea was that by relying on each other, sharing their alcoholic experiences, and creating an atmosphere of conviviality, they could keep each other sober. Total abstinence from alcohol (teetotalism) was their goal. The group taught sobriety and preceded Alcoholics Anonymous by almost a century. Members sought out other "drunkards" (the term alcoholic had not yet been created), told them their experiences with excessive alc (en)
- Washingtons Helnykterhetssällskap (Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) var en amerikansk nykterhetsförening, bildad den 2 april 1840, på Chase's Tavern, Liberty Street, Baltimore av sex f d alkoholister: , , , , och . Deras mål var att, genom kamratstöd och gudomlig hjälp, fortsatt hålla sig helnyktra. Samtidigt som denna rörelse uppstod ett löst nätverk av (både privat och offentligt finansierade) hjälpinrättningar för alkoholister, kallade "asyler" eller "reformhus". Bland dessa fanns t.ex. Washingtonian Homes, som 1857 öppnades i Boston och Chicago. (sv)
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