Episode 41: Polygamy and the Family Public and Private

Written by Lindsay Hansen Park on July 21, 2014. Posted in year of polygamy

Join Lindsay as she discusses what plural marriages did to prescribed family roles and how it affected the mental health of plural wives.

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Links mentioned in this podcast: Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier By Mary Ellen Jones.
The Wife I Want, 1893.
Read the transcript of the episode here. h/t Kecia Gilliam
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Diane

November 5, 2014 at 11:20 pm | #

This is so sad, I am crying for these women as you read about their heartaches, if these journals were read in today”s Relief Society tears would flow. Polygamy did absolutely nothing but damage. I will never believe it was of God…where’s the joy? Plural marriage was a horrible sentence and if this is all I have to look forward to in the eternities….I do not want to go. This is in no way a reward.

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