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A " Society for the Relief of poor Widows and small Children , " formed in New York City by fifteen ladies in 1797 , supported 202 widows and 500 children by 1816 , collecting and dispensing over $ 3500 a year for charity .
A " Society for the Relief of poor Widows and small Children , " formed in New York City by fifteen ladies in 1797 , supported 202 widows and 500 children by 1816 , collecting and dispensing over $ 3500 a year for charity .
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Poor women in both the North and South protested , petitioned , and , when all else failed , rioted . Bread riots , usually made up of the half - starved , ragged moth- ers and wives of volunteers , swept the cities as the war deep- ...
Poor women in both the North and South protested , petitioned , and , when all else failed , rioted . Bread riots , usually made up of the half - starved , ragged moth- ers and wives of volunteers , swept the cities as the war deep- ...
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But the horror that haunted her all her life was the image of unwanted children born into families too poor to support them , of mothers looking upon motherhood as a disaster , of mothers forced to end unwanted pregnancies by illegal ...
But the horror that haunted her all her life was the image of unwanted children born into families too poor to support them , of mothers looking upon motherhood as a disaster , of mothers forced to end unwanted pregnancies by illegal ...
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Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |