Butchers and Bakers hated Sylvester Graham and caused problems at some of his lectures, especially in Boston.
Butchers didn't like him because he preached against meat. Bakers hated him because he was affecting the sale of white bread. Refined city folk were just beginning to get a taste for refined white bread which could only be bought at the bakery. So police and security guards were a staple at his lectures.
His diatribes against sexual passions were so graphic that it was commonplace for women of refined nature to faint. So a doctor was also a staple at his lectures.
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Did you say yet when he was born and when he died? ...and how he died?
He was born in 1797 and died in 1852. I'll tell more about this towards the end of my posts, but there are many sites that tell of his life.
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