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23222
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English
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A War of Words : Revelation and Storytelling in the Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
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Chicago-Kent Law Review
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2003
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78
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no.2
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739-792
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Novelists and popular writers "exploited a market for fiction that explored the dangers of religious liberty, compared polygamy to slavery and argued for intervention by the national government." Anti-polygamy novels "connected questions of constitutional meaning to religion and marriage." This article examines those anti-polygamy writings that were "designed to arouse sympathy" and ultimately influence legal changes to prohibit polygamy.