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English
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St. George and Nineteenth Century Polygamy
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Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, 1984-2014
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St. George, UT
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Dixie State University
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139-152
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Nineteenth-century politicians were fond of pairing Mormon polygamy and southern slavery as similar evils, and they continued their campaign against polygamy with some of the same fervor and much of the same language after the end of slavery. Although the actual differences between slavery and polygamy are both obvious and beyond the scope of this essay, there are important parallels between the problems and opportunities they have offered to historians, parallels that are a useful introductory framework for assessing the history of polygamy. [From the text]