Wife, No. 19 V.1

Amazon.com review Autobiographies of polygamist women who leave the faith in the 19th century are hard to find and I treasure this one. The book is written by Ann Eliza Webb, wife of Brigham Young, who leaves the faith and exposes the world of Mormon polygamy. Many women were victims to the abusive "highest principle" of the Mormon faith. I have trouble reading some of the negative reviews from people calling this victim "disgruntled" or expecting too much from her marriage. Here is a woman who was born & raised into a polygamous family and indoctrinated into a religion that teaches she will be damned to hell if she leaves the church, and makes unimaginable sacrifices in living her religion. She was brave enough to escape and apostatize from the faith, losing her eternal salvation and even risking her life. It's interesting that a victim of religious coerced polygamy has her story labeled as fiction and lies by some reviewers. Would these same Mormons judge the current FLDS polygamist women who escape and tell their stories as liars and disgruntled? What I found fascinating was her steadfast faith in God, despite the indoctrination she was forced to deprogram herself from. She spent the rest of her life educating the public about the abuse of living in the culture of 19th century Mormon polygamy. This is not a book for exact historical dates or statements (she is not a historian) but an excellent book for what polygamy was really like for the women behind closed doors. The messages they gave in public forums were for the church and encouraged by the leaders. Having a first hand account of living "the principle" in 19th century Mormonism makes this book very unique. I highly recommend the books "Mormon Polygamy" by Richard Van Wagoner or "In Sacred Loneliness" by Todd Compton for further information on Mormon Polygamy. - BakerBella Important Notice!! Please read before you purchase. - This book was produced from scanning process so you CAN’T use some text feature such as Adjust Font Size, Search or Highlight. - Since this book does NOT support TEXT adjustment Function, we strongly do not recommend reading it with mobile phone, Android, BB or any small device. - This book does NOT support Text To Speech Function. Product description If you HATE the book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words, this book is for you. We don't use OCR'd book technology (Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text) to make the kindle version but we bring to you by THE SCANNING OR PHOTOGRAPH PROCESS. So everything you see here is almost same as original version. It may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact. We hope you enjoy and are satisfied with our book. For more interesting books, please search for ‘AMA publication’. AMA Publication