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  • Wife No. 19

  • The Autobiography of a Mormon Woman Caught in the Snare of Polygamy
  • By: Ann-Eliza Young
  • Narrated by: Tiffany Rudd
  • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Wife No. 19

By: Ann-Eliza Young
Narrated by: Tiffany Rudd
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To the Mormon wives of Utah, I dedicate this audiobook to you, as I consecrate my life to your cause. As long as God gives me life, I shall pray and plead for your deliverance from the worse than Egyptian bondage in which you are held.

Despised, maligned, and wronged; kept in gross ignorance of the great world, its pure creeds, its high aims, its generous motives, you have been made to believe that the noblest nation of the earth was truly represented by the horde of miscreants who drove you from State to State, in early years, murdering your sons and assassinating your leaders. Hence, you shrink from those whom God will soon lead to your deliverance, from those to whom I daily present your claims to a hearing and liberation, and who listen with responsive and sympathetic hearts.

But he will not long permit you to be so wickedly deceived; nor will the people permit you to be so cruelly enslaved. Hope and pray! Come out of the house of bondage! Kind hearts beat for you! Open hands will welcome you! Do not fear that while God lives, you shall suffer uncared for in the wilderness! This Christian realm is not Babylon, but the promised land! Courage! The night of oppression is nearly ended, and the sun of liberty is rising in the heavens for you.

©2018 CrossReach Publications (P)2022 CrossReach Publications
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Good insight into the character of Brigham Young

Very good insight into how it was to live in Utah in the 1800s. The history of suffering women suppressed in the Mormon church. Some names were mispronounced by the reader but overall a good listen.

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What everyone should know about Mormonism

The tale of the only King in the United States, Brigham Young. You must read it to believe it.

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Sad story, bad editing

Chapter 8 (I think it was) is cut off mid sentence. And the last two or three chapters repeat lines like the editor was splicing a couple takes together.

I was raised Mormon (now more of an agnostic polytheist), and hearing the names of some of the early church leaders pronounced very differently than I was taught in the 80s and 90s was strange and distracting. (For example, "Heber". Usually pronounced HE-ber. The narrator pronounced it as HEH-ber.

Overall, I feel this book is a must read/listen for anyone in or out of the Mormon church who wants to understand the horrors of polygamy in the early Mormon church.

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Interesting history, not the best reader

The story is very interesting but all the mispronounced names and words are very distracting.

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