Episode 71: Mormon Women in Prison

Written by Lindsay Hansen Park on December 24, 2014. Posted in Uncategorized, year of polygamy

19th-century female workers in Lowell, Massachusetts were arguably the first to use the term “wage slave”.

Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Lorie Winder Stromberg and Sarah Barringer Gordon about Mormon women who were imprisoned for practicing polygamy in the 19th Century.

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Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:

Lorie’s essay can be found in the Second Edition of the Persistence of Polygamy
Old newspaper headline about Mormon Women imprisoned for polygamy

Tags: edmunds act, federal legislation, Lorie Winder Stromberg, mormon underground, morrill act, poland act, sarah barringer gordon, women in jail, women in prison, year of polygamy

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