Item Detail
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24241
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English
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Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South
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Journal of Southern History
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August 2010
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76
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no.3
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541-578
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"The most common portrayal of the Latter-day Saint (LDS) missionary in the postbellum South was as a scheming sexual predator who seduced young women and lured them away to his polygamous harem in the West. Although of a different type than the so-called black beast rapist who forced himself on unwilling white women, the image of the Mormon seducer tapped into many of the same fears that captivated southern white men in the late nineteenth century and provided their rationale for lynching. Southern violence against Mormon missionaries was a socially conservative defense of community from the intrusion of outsiders, built on a foundation of cultural ideals in which the protection of innocent and helpless white women from those who would take advantage of them represented a central defining point of southern manhood." [p. 543]
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A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Civil War’s Aftermath : Reconstruction, Abolition, and Polygamy
"Deep in the Shades of Ill-Starred Georgia's Wood" : The Murder of Elder Joseph Standing in Late-Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Reconstruction and Mormon America
The Application of Federal Power in Utah Territory
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South