1867-1870 FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY MAG. Civil War Widows, Prostitution, Work-Houses, Sex Trafficking, &c.

Very scarce volume including three and a half 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 in prostitution and female enslavement, etc.,  Provides critical insight into views of the idealized woman of the era, etc. etc. Other subjects as well. Take a moment to scan through the contents. Excellent and very scarce. The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools. New York. American Female Guardian Society. 1867. 292pp Contents include: Be Ye Warmed and Fed; The Mariner's Compass; Family Worship - Two Me