The chambers of death : a sermon / by S.C. Aikin, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Utica, N.Y.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aiken, S. C. (Samuel Clark), 1790-1879, author.

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libertinism.

Prostitutes--New York (State)--Utica.

Prostitutes.

Prostitution--New York (State)--Utica.

Prostitution.

New York (State)--Utica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Moral reform.

Place of Publication:

New York : J.N. Bolles ; Troy, New York : Rev. F. Shipherd ; Boston, Massachusetts : H.K. Stockton ; Cincinnati, Ohio : Wm. Truman, [1834?]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

At head of title: [No. 1].

Henry K. Stockton is listed at 31 Cornhill in the Boston directory for 1834 only.

Cover title.

Concerning "the sin, immorality, and general evils of libertinism."

"Well done Utica! Common Council of Utica vs. brothels. Laws and ordinances of the Common Council of the city of Utica, passed January 31st, 1834. An ordinance for the suppression of vice and immorality."--page 16.

"Asylum."--pages 17-18, soliciting funds "to erect a proper refuge for the reformation of that guilty and miserable class of females, thronging the vicious abodes in the cities of New York."

Dated (page [2]) February 17, 1834.

Also issued under title: Moral reform. A sermon delivered at Utica, on Sabbath evening, February 16, 1834.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937017257

Access Restriction:

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