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Carry "Battle-Ax" Nation
"...Whisky is a worse evil than chattel slavery"
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Known as the "Battle-Ax" for her extreme smashing of saloons, Carry A. Nation was one of the leading figureheads of the Temperance Movement. Her guts, determination, and unrelentless nature was sometimes shadowed by other impressions of her as "Mother Nation", a kind grandmotherly woman out for the improvement of life. Wether she was the "Battle-Ax" or "Mother Nation" her cause was the same: To rid the world of the evils of booze.
Early Life:
- Grew up as a sick child
- Family went through money problems
- Father was unreliable--mother was mentally unstable
- Father was a slave owner--Carry loved her father but saw the slaves as her friends
- She was left to care and provide for her sibblings at an early age.
- Because of responsibilites she had very little education
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