Mormonism and politics/Economics of LDS immigration

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Economics of LDS immigration

Summary: It is claimed that LDS missionaries to England "capitalized on the intolerable social and economic conditions" in order to gain converts.

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• Question: Did early Mormon missionaries to England take advantage of "intolerable social and economic conditions" in order to gain converts?

Mormonism and politics/Economics of LDS immigration

• Did early Mormon missionaries to England take advantage of "intolerable social and economic conditions" in order to gain converts?

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Source(s) of the criticism:

Critical sources

Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 264. ( Index of claims ) Sally Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, (Secker & Warburg, 2003), 37 (citing Brodie).

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