1864-1865 FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY MAG. Civil War Widows, Prostitution, Work-Houses, Sex Trafficking, &c. Reformation and spears

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"The preface of this first American edition is signed by Samuel Austin

Union with Christ

in the United States of America

Her life was given entirely as a teacher at various Methodist [South] female seminaries

1864-1865 FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY MAG. Civil War Widows, Prostitution, Work-Houses, Sex Trafficking, &c. Reformation and spearsVery scarce volume including two full years of an important periodical created for the edification of women and raising funds and advocacy for societies to rescue vulnerable women from poverty, work houses, prostitution, etc., The periodical became especially important as women would become the "home guard" during the Civil War and the number of single mothers in the years after the war reached statistically unsustainable levels, leading to an upswing