What was the purpose of the female moral reform society, which middle-class new york women founded in 1834?

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What was the purpose of the female moral reform society, which middle-class new york women founded in 1834?

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In America in 1830s and 1840s one the main issues that the society had to deal with was the moral reform, and so in 1834, a New York resident under the name Lydia A. Finney created the New York Female Moral Reform society whose then sole purpose was the prevention and eradication of prostitution.