{"product_id":"1858-1861-rare-missouri-magazine-devoted-to-womens-rights-christian-universalism-and-abolition","title":"1858-1861 RARE MISSOURI MAGAZINE. Devoted to Women's Rights, Christian Universalism, and Abolition.","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003eThis 1858–1861 Missouri periodical occupies a rather bold and highly significant effort in American print history, functioning via soft power as a radical ideological anomaly operating directly inside a brutal slave state on the eve of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eThe publication’s convergence of Christian Universalism, abolition, and women’s rights presents a daring, unified theological offensive against the prevailing social structures of the Missouri frontier. While orthodox Southern churches frequently weaponized Scripture to justify both the subjugation of women and the enslavement of African Americans, the editors utilized Universalist theology, which argued for the ultimate salvation of all humanity, as a radical equalizer. By linking the spiritual equality of all souls to the physical necessity of immediate emancipation and legal rights for women, the magazine directly challenged the legal and cultural foundations of Missouri society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003ePublishing these intersecting, incendiary philosophies in Missouri during the Bleeding Kansas border crises required immense physical and financial courage. It represents a rare, surviving voice of the westernmost edge of the radical reform movement, proving that despite intense regional violence and strict censorship, outspoken enclaves of progressivism managed to print and distribute explicit anti-slavery and feminist rhetoric directly on enemy ground right up to the firing on Fort Sumter. But it should be no surprise that such a readership would exist in Missouri. Prior to its purchased by the United States [1820] Missourian women could own property, own businesses, and had far greater rights than after. Similarly, even enslaved people in Missouri prior to 1820 were prohibited from being worked on the sabbath, enjoyed some small worker's rights, and could use their protected time to work elsewhere and could sue for their freedom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe push toward women's equality in the periodical is much more substantial than the push toward abolition. The Manfords were known abolitionists, so we suspect they took a discretion as the better part of valor approach. Though to anyone reading their pages, the abolitionist implications would have been absolutely clear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe trace no similar examples in the auction history or in the trade. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes also a half-sheet \u003cem\u003eSupplement \u003c\/em\u003erequesting readers consider paying in advance to aid in the cause of the publication. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManford, Erasmus and Mrs. H. B. [Eds]. Manford's Magazine. A Monthly Journal: Devoted to Liberal Principles. First Volume. Comprising January of 1858 through December of 1858.  Saint Louis, MO. 1858. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: The Justice of God by L. C. Todd; Partialism not the Gospel by I. D. Williamson; Immortal Devil; W. J. Chapin and Universalist Missionaries in the West; Apostles of Hell; Southern Liberality [Alabama]; Proposal for a Public Printing Press in Missouri; Impressions of Missouri; Woman's Work; The Woman's Rights Almanac; Explanation of the XX Chapter of Revelation by T. Whittemore; Destruction of all Enemies to God and Man; Divine Paternal Love; Moral Advancement of the Soul After Death; The Baptist Butcher; Debate in Carlinsville, Illinois; Conclusive Scriptural Proof of Universalism by T. Whittemore; Legend of the Revolution - Last Day of Jefferson and Adams; On the Binding of Ladies' Feet in China; The Dogma of Endless Hell Torments of Heathen Origin; The Old Testament Doctrine of Hell by T. B. Thayer; School Houses; Origins of Methodist Episcopacy; Influence of Faith in Hell-Fire; Letters from St. Louis; Evil Incident to Revivals; Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe on Revivals; Man's Freedom and Universal Salvation; A Picture of Calvinism; Loss of the Steamboat Ocean Spray - Women and Children Drowning, etc., First-Hand Account; Preaching on a Steamboat; Protracted Meetings; Boasting Mason the Methodist; The National Woman's Rights Convention; A Few Reasons for the Apparent Intellectual Inferiority of Women by Leonie of St. Louis; On the Death of Infants by John Quincy Adams; Is Universalism the Devil's Doctrine?; The Father of Waters [Meditations on the Mississippi]; Preaching Jesus by A. G. Adams; Premature Marriages; Women's Rights - A Letter to the National Intelligencer; Woman and Machinery; A Letter from the Country Onboard the Steamship Louisiana; Partialists in Prison [The Article Claims Statistics show that Criminals more likely to be Calvinists than Universalists]; The Madison County Fair; A Human Hair Fair [on the sale of female hair]; Spurgeonisms - Condemnation of Some of the Blasphemous Libels of C. H. Spurgeon Against the Divine Character; The Woman Preacher - An Account of the Preaching of Lydia A. Jenkins; A Methodist Preacher Hung; Hanging a Christian; etc., etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManford, Erasmus and Mrs. H. B. [Eds]. Manford's Magazine. A Monthly Journal: Devoted to Liberal Principles. First Volume. Comprising January of 1858 through December of 1859.  Saint Louis, MO. 1859. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: Debate in Bentonsport, Iowa; The Gospel of the Poor by E. M\u0026gt; Pingree; Baptism by Rev. Day K. Lee; Journey up the Missouri River; The Power of Woman; The Punishment of the Jews by J. M. Austin; John Pierpont on Spiritualism; To Whom do Men Belong [Against Slavery and the Possibility of Owning another Person]; The Insanity of Religous Excitements; Women Voting; False Charges against Universalism by E. M. Pingree; The Three Persons in the Godhead; Reasons for Believing in the Final Salvation of All Mankind by Erasmus Manford; The Day of Judgement and the Burning of the World by J. M. Austin; Hell According to Chinese Buddhism; Christianity and Revivals; Universal Restoration; Be Kind to Your Wife; Dorothy L. Dix Inspecting Asylums in Jacksonville; The Female Form; A Murderer in Glory - A Partialist Preacher Hanged; Christian Revivals; Too Good to be True?; Your Father the Devil; The Millennial Sabbath; A Ransom for All; Arguments for a Devil; Is Matter Eternal?; The Garden of Eden by W. E. Manly; The Wife's Experiment; Our Female Preacher; The Blood Theology [on Cowper's \u003cem\u003eThere is a Fountain Filled with Blood\u003c\/em\u003e]; Letters from St. Louis; Relation of this Life to the Next by Thomas Starr King; St. Louis Public Schools; etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Bound with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManford, Erasmus and Mrs. H. B. [Eds]. Manford's Magazine: A Monthly Journal, Devoted to Liberal Principles. Fourth Volume. January of 1861 through St. Louis, MO. 1861. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include: A Bible Creed; Strange Things; The Mad Engineer  [Cholera and Ships not Minding Quarantine]; Universalism on Plymouth Rock; Endless Woe a Selfish Doctrine; Mal-Treatment of Children - A Raging Article Against Confinement in a Schoolroom; On St. Louis Public Schools; A Short Dialogue between a Universalist and a Partialist; On the Rich Man and Lazarus; The Kingdom of God; The Spirit shall Return unto the God who Gave It; The General Judgment; Letters from St. Louis; Diphtheria; The Image of God in which Man was Created; The Missing Ship [from J. B. Gough]; Religion, Politics, and Business; Salvation for All; Objections to the Death Penalty; On Free Masonry; The North Missouri Railroad; The Second Coming of Christ and Everlasting Punishment by T. Whittemore; The Trials and Dangers of Whale Fishing - Whaling [Lengthy, with accounts of deaths, etc.]; The Civil War; Effects of Faith in Endless Misery; Endless Misery Inspires Revenge; The Female Pilot on the St. Lawrence; The Duel; A Ministerial Convert in California; What Woman Ought to Be; Woman's Influence; Methodists [Ought to be] Universalists; Christ the Image of God; A Letter from Joliet, Illinois; etc. etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good - example, spine cover neatly relaid; rubbed and worn as shown. Text generally clean with a foredge stain on the first signature or so and a lower edger stain on the last. The volume as issued, \u003cem\u003esans\u003c\/em\u003e April, 1859; August, September, and October, 1861. It is unclear whether they were never bound in or actually went unpublished. The gap in pagination is nowhere near sufficient for three missing issues, so we suspect printing was suspended and that the volume is indeed complete. A few pages torn on foredge with just slightest loss to first letter of text, not impacting legibility. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50994956894244,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/07-03-2026SpecsFineBooks-7.jpg?v=1783102333","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1858-1861-rare-missouri-magazine-devoted-to-womens-rights-christian-universalism-and-abolition","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}