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- ==Question: Did Joseph Smith endorse slavery?== ...rmons who were pro-slavery, the leaders of the church did not take an anti-slavery line===3 KB (514 words) - 15:14, 13 April 2024
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- ==Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?== ===Brigham Young instituted slavery in Utah===4 KB (598 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
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- ...d his cart-tongue, that, when the constitution was so long that it allowed slavery at the capital of a free people, it could not be cut off; but when it was s72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...es abounded, with virtually all of them justifying, in one way or another, slavery or relegation of Blacks to the role of second-class citizens. There was eve9 KB (1,415 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- * justifying and protecting slavery by Southern Baptists prior to the American Civil War49 KB (8,019 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...ll the ordinances would assist and help others as "servants." This is not slavery, but a partnership between exalted beings. A modification would have requi ...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anyone who believes that there will be slavery in heaven is absolutely mistaken.11 KB (1,818 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- The Lord announces His intention to liberate the Israelites from slavery. But, in the very next breath, He tells Moses what to tell Pharaoh:22 KB (3,787 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- <!-- *[[../../Political history claims#Utah slavery alienated the nation]] -->26 KB (3,883 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...to note that the "curse of Ham" was a Protestant invention used to justify slavery.21 KB (3,131 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...was a ''Protestant'' invention that was used to ''justify the practice of slavery.'' Instead, he portrays "the Mormons" as being behind the times for the nex18 KB (2,890 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...act that the "Curse of Ham" was a ''Protestant'' invention used to justify slavery. ...se of Ham" believe was a ''Protestant'' invention that was used to justify slavery, and that Protestant congregations were segregated.118 KB (18,356 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- *After the [Civil] war the southern churches, continuing the legacy of slavery, were among the first institutions to call for the separation of the races; ...State Convention in 1859, none other than Jefferson Davis defended chattel slavery and the foreign slave trade by alluding to the "importation of the race of16 KB (2,472 words) - 16:54, 30 April 2024
- ...ng and reasoning with regard to African slavery on this continent, and the slavery of the children of men throughout the world. (Brigham Young, May 20, 1860.25 KB (4,401 words) - 14:15, 13 April 2024
- ...of Ham:" a concept that was developed in order to justify the practice of slavery. The origin of the "curse of Ham" pre-dates the establishment of the Church4 KB (707 words) - 22:06, 9 May 2024
- |L3=Response to claim: 302 - Joseph Smith is said to have endorsed slavery |L4=Response to claim: 303 - Slavery was accepted in Utah7 KB (962 words) - 14:17, 13 April 2024
- ...God removes the curse; and no power can hinder it. These are my views upon slavery. I will here say a little more upon this point. The conduct of the whites t43 KB (8,245 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ll reject the religion of the Mahometans, they are made to return to their slavery.17 KB (3,008 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...need Utah's armies to help them. They are threatening war in Kansas on the slavery question, and the General Government has already been called upon to send t15 KB (2,716 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...e slavery has for some time been abolished. Under their law for abolishing slavery the then male slaves had to serve until they were 28 years old, and if my m But at the time that slavery was tolerated in the northern and eastern States, if you touched that quest34 KB (6,501 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...to enable us to express our peculiar conscientious notions about freedom, slavery, and Catholicism, about which so much phrenzied zeal has been exhibited dur16 KB (2,962 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e tools which do up the business. Whenever I conversed with any of the pro-slavery men on this subject, they generally told me that if the other party should11 KB (1,930 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...he days of Julius Caesar and Pompey, promptly answered, We prefer death to slavery. But you know we are Latter-day Saints—we are "Mormons," and hence we can38 KB (7,244 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...s between the two parties that have existed there—one party in favour of slavery, and the other opposed to it. There has been a great struggle between them,39 KB (7,404 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...to break out in Kansas between the Republican, or Free State, and the pro-slavery parties; for which reason General Harney, with the cavalry, a portion of th25 KB (4,857 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...s of free men? Who will not consider which is to be preferred—FREEDOM or SLAVERY? Shall this people be left to the mercy of men who come here with armies to16 KB (2,813 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...alternative for this people: it is our religion, our God, our liberty, or slavery, the Devil, and death. There is no drawing back. The wedge has been entered13 KB (2,411 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...d the privilege of asking questions. One gentleman asked if we believed in slavery. I told him, No, we did not; "but," said I, "we believe in the Gospel of Je "Ah," said he, "the Mormons do believe in slavery; for they permit men to bring their slaves into their Territory."27 KB (5,172 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ng and reasoning with regard to African slavery on this continent, and the slavery of the children of men throughout the world. There are other revelations, b25 KB (4,630 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...occupy their thoughts. The attempt of John Brown, last fall, to overthrow slavery, engendered feelings of hatred between the North and the South which never30 KB (5,541 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...up and firm exertion on the part of the North to get up a crusade against slavery—to make the men who live in the Southern States turn over their slaves. ...eep negroes, seeing we had got the money for ours. Our State was free from slavery, and we desired all the Virginians to turn their negroes loose. We grew mor16 KB (3,008 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...e and independent government that holds four millions of persons in abject slavery: we do not believe in it, and they shall be free." How natural it is for th25 KB (4,859 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...certainly be against the pro-slavery side of the question, for it was pro-slavery men that pointed the bayonet at me and my brethren in Missouri, and said, "27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...UE SOURCE OF WEALTH AND POWER—UNITY OF JESUS AND HIS FATHER—MIRACLES—SLAVERY—TRUE CHARITY, ETC. ...UE SOURCE OF WEALTH AND POWER—UNITY OF JESUS AND HIS FATHER—MIRACLES—SLAVERY—TRUE CHARITY, ETC.29 KB (5,450 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...Towards Strangers—Selling Flour and Grain—the War and Its Effects Upon Slavery]]30 KB (5,704 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...TOWARDS STRANGERS—SELLING FLOUR AND GRAIN—THE WAR AND ITS EFFECTS UPON SLAVERY ...TOWARDS STRANGERS—SELLING FLOUR AND GRAIN—THE WAR AND ITS EFFECTS UPON SLAVERY11 KB (2,002 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...Towards Strangers—Selling Flour and Grain—the War and Its Effects Upon Slavery]]21 KB (4,000 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ging to us wealth and independence, it would weld upon our necks chains of slavery, groveling dependence and utter overthrow.32 KB (6,125 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...for not destroying both "the twins" together, that is, polygamy as well as slavery. After he had laid the whole matter before the President in an elaborate ma27 KB (5,051 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...Charles Sumner, who stood up in the Senate of the United States and fought slavery. He stood there singly and alone, but he espoused a righteous cause, and by29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ing delivered them from oppression and tyranny, little better than African slavery; and, no doubt, our legislators at Washington, one and all, would give us c25 KB (4,239 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...hey say, is abolished. I do not, however, wish to speak about this; but if slavery and oppression and iron-handed cruelty are not more felt by the blacks to-d24 KB (4,551 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...their acts, and the fulfilment of the dreams for which they sold him into slavery was brought about by that very means. So our brethren, instead of owning th10 KB (1,955 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...y a leading statesman of our nation, that the conflict between freedom and slavery was irrepressible. It may be truthfully said respecting the warfare in whic30 KB (5,440 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...life by this erroneous idea. We must stop this drain or we will sink into slavery more abject than that felt by any other people on the continent. The cause18 KB (3,358 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ing delivered them from oppression and tyranny, little better than African slavery; and no doubt our legislators at Washington, one and all, would give us cre28 KB (4,720 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...ow and unable to rescue her from a life of toil and {{page break|100|top}} slavery. A lady, whom I knew in my youth, the wife of a minister, where I used to a38 KB (7,380 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...nd homes of their own, redeem them from thral[l]dom and bondage worse than slavery, and place them in a position of independence on their own soil, enjoy the11 KB (1,915 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...ery pointed there, against what {{page break|188|top}} they termed African slavery, but they did not look at the slaves at home—the millions of people who w44 KB (8,270 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...body else dictate me. This is servitude, and is nothing more nor less than slavery!" I suppose there are some who would feel thus. When I look at the Latter-d31 KB (6,134 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...through. This organization may have existed through all the period of the slavery of the children of Israel, for several generations, although we cannot supp46 KB (8,523 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...enslaved and brought into captivity to them, and that is the worst kind of slavery; and according to what I have read here, the spirit of the devil enters int41 KB (7,801 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...them from the civil war that has since overtaken them, the results of the slavery question, that was agitating the nation, all these great and important subj22 KB (3,944 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...ty—slavery—and their master, the devil, was there to bind them in that slavery. Could they turn the key of the prison doors and run back again? No! Could36 KB (6,891 words) - 14:42, 13 April 2024
- ...om, and his lungs expand with it, he feels as though he never could bow to slavery, nor his children after him. There is a race springing up in these mountain24 KB (4,329 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...arly every class of society there was a continual stir and sensation about slavery in the Southern States. This terrible evil had become one of such vast impo ...f men. No indeed; it was not to be tolerated any more than the doctrine of slavery. There were here and there a few, though but very few in proportion to the23 KB (4,266 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...they want, to go before the people and tell them that they have rooted out slavery, and now they are after Mormonism, and wont you religious fanatics join in?16 KB (2,956 words) - 14:44, 13 April 2024
- ...of the belief of the people. Sometimes they get killed in mobs about anti-slavery, {{page break|276|top}} or something of that kind; but when it comes to rel46 KB (8,311 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...time;" but there were others who thought it was comparable to slavery. But slavery was the practice of eleven millions of people at the time of the rebellion,34 KB (6,200 words) - 14:40, 13 April 2024
- ...ds all. Now, the Gospel produces this sense of equality. There could be no slavery where the Gospel is taught in its fullness and in its perfection. There cou39 KB (7,483 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ctly miserable. And there are some people too who think they are always in slavery and bondage unless they are trying to get themselves into trouble; and they19 KB (3,399 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...l Phillips, a distinguished orator, undertook to lecture in Boston against slavery, and learned as Boston was, educated as Boston was, the noted lecturer was31 KB (5,489 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...relics—in which they pledged themselves to exterminate the twin relics, slavery and polygamy. What was the condition of the religious sects of America at t ...ct of the United States as between the North and South on this question of slavery; and proposed an easy and honorable plan of settling the question without v32 KB (5,612 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ere association with the black freedman might accustom us to the chains of slavery that now lie rusting in the blood of thousands that were brave and true—w63 KB (11,097 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../34|The "Twin Relics," Slavery and Polygamy, etc.]]20 KB (3,541 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...CHRISTIAN" STATESMANSHIP—JOSEPH SMITH'S PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY—THE GREAT REBELLION, CHURCH DIVISION—THE BIBLE AND POLYGAMY, ORIGIN OF ...CHRISTIAN" STATESMANSHIP—JOSEPH SMITH'S PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY—THE GREAT REBELLION, CHURCH DIVISION—THE BIBLE AND POLYGAMY, ORIGIN OF29 KB (5,247 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../34|The "Twin Relics," Slavery and Polygamy, etc.]]26 KB (5,068 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...time, as Quincy says, when men's minds were stirred up on this question of slavery. "But," says he, "what shall be thought of the man who, eleven years previo26 KB (4,663 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...f the way—the one was slavery, and the other polygamy. They have removed slavery out of the way, but polygamy seems to be rather a hard nut for them to crac42 KB (7,949 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...he legislature, and referring to Missouri and her right to be heard on the slavery question, said: ...ng and reasoning with regard to African slavery on this continent, and the slavery of the children of men throughout the world. There are other revelations, b19 KB (3,121 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ...ars such as Forrest Wood plainly state that the Christian justification of slavery would come "crashing down" without a belief in a curse and "could be sustai ...ey not want to elaborate on Joseph's revolutionary solution for abolishing slavery? Instead of commenting on the revulsion of Mormon leaders towards the widel29 KB (4,646 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...Old Testament]]. For instance, Leviticus clearly allows a form of chattel slavery—Israelites enslaving non-Israelites ([https://www.churchofjesuschrist ...t/1-cor/1.30?lang=eng 1 Corinthians 1:30]), payment for one's release from slavery (exemplified in any use of the word "redemption" in scripture which uses ar51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- ...at was used by many Protestants as a way to morally and biblically justify slavery. This idea did not originate with Latter-day Saints, although the existence Despite having published a pro-[[slavery]] essay in 1836,37 KB (4,789 words) - 20:12, 11 May 2024
- *Joseph justified slavery.8 KB (1,255 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- |L4=Slavery in early Utah {{:Utah/Early Slavery}}422 bytes (63 words) - 15:58, 13 April 2024
- ...more prophets. We have Bible societies, missionary societies, abolition of slavery societies, and temperance societies, to convert the world with and bring in86 KB (15,726 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- It was here that this aged apostle, instead of being compelled to the usual slavery, for which the advanced period of his life was so little adopted, was favor71 KB (12,835 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...raw the hand of fellowship because they will not renounce the principle of slavery and raise their voice against every thing of the kind. This must be a tende ...are as capable of knowing the evils of slavery as those who hold them. If slavery is an evil, who, could we expect, would first learn it? Would the people of70 KB (12,791 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...o settlements, and none to interfere with them. It is a territory in which slavery is prohibited, and it is settled entirely with emigrants from the North and ...brought against our friends is that of being dangerous in societies "where slavery is tolerated and practiced." Without occupying time here, we refer you to t66 KB (11,563 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...s, but raised in power." If I consider my soul, it is passing, I see, from slavery100 KB (18,643 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...on with the wonderful events of this age, much is doing towards abolishing slavery, and colonizing the blacks, in Africa.87 KB (16,001 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...light is prefferable [preferable] to darkness, truth to error, liberty to slavery, or heaven to the regions of the bottomless pit.81 KB (14,720 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...innocent and unsuspecting natives of their gold, and of bringing them into slavery! ...trampled upon, and their children destined to wear out a life in wretched slavery, and spend their years in bending to their fellow creatures who are no bett89 KB (15,809 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...be held in everlasting remembrance by our people-they burst the chains of slavery and proclaimed us forever free! A vote of thanks, couched in the strongest76 KB (13,230 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...on with the wonderful events of this age, much is doing towards abolishing slavery, and colonizing the blacks in Africa.76 KB (13,626 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...e can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery' ...n the rock of Slavery, finding it impossible to reconcile the growing anti-slavery sentiment of the North with the slaveholding spirit of the South."80 KB (14,317 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...there be any that have not split (the North against the South) upon negro slavery in the church, they are ready to do it, and will the first fair opportunity ...law and long settled policy of the Methodist Episcopal Church to extirpate slavery from the States of our National confederation-unchecked by the policy and l73 KB (12,691 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |L8=SLAVERY AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS. ===SLAVERY AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS.===78 KB (13,863 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- 4. The new Church is pro-slavery. 7. By its pro-slavery principles and action in time, it will be shut out from access to the slave79 KB (13,962 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...the oppression which they affirm exist in those of our States where negro slavery is tolerated, behold the evidence of her sincerity as presented by a London79 KB (14,102 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- Now, if we take the "divisions" in the various sectarian churches as to slavery, the language and predictions of Jesus are proven; as to the "fire" we will79 KB (14,190 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...of our hands, which you well know would be like selling our children into slavery, and the urging of such a measure would avail nothing, unless to produce an ...e murmured at their condition and longed to be again yoked in their former slavery, whereby they were detained forty years in the wilderness, and with the exc80 KB (14,552 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...e pursuit of happiness: but at the same time, in the face of these truths, slavery is tolerated by law: imprisonment is tolerated by law: and murder is tolera76 KB (13,498 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...leanings (though [[Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?|slavery did become a practice]] among certain Saints during the Utah period). ...o the Church and migrated to Utah with their slaves raised the question of slavery’s legal status in the territory. In two speeches delivered before the Uta10 KB (1,728 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ...arry amongst the Israelites? Yes. Is there any indication that rape or sex slavery was forced upon the women? Absolutely not.</blockquote>16 KB (2,641 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...elings of guilt and shame. It is detrimental to spirituality. It indicates slavery to the flesh, not that mastery of it and the growth toward godhood which is16 KB (2,419 words) - 15:16, 13 April 2024
- ...unding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opposed slavery. During this time some black males were ordained to the priesthood. At some3 KB (420 words) - 22:06, 1 May 2024
- ...progressive with regard to its attitude towards blacks during a time when slavery was an accepted part of American society. In fact, the troubles in Independ ...he Church was organized in 1830 as a way to morally and biblically justify slavery. Early Latter-day Saint leaders who converted from Protestantism brought al45 KB (7,307 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...age) did not always live up to the light given them. Those who practiced slavery during a historical time in which it was legal will have to answer to God's ...eligious people to continue to feel good about themselves while supporting slavery. Latter-day Saints inherited the same attitudes about the "Curse of Cain,"42 KB (7,082 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...should send me some of the papers containing the letters of br. Joseph on slavery. Send them to Webb's Post Office, Stokes Co. N. C. The climate in the count71 KB (12,915 words) - 11:20, 15 December 2012
- |claim=The website poses the question "Did Mormons oppose slavery?" They answer that Joseph Smith opposed it, but that the Utah territory all ...'s status as a slave state. However, some Latter-day Saints still accepted slavery, which was legal at the time. This practice carried over to the Utah territ13 KB (2,112 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...so, ye goodly inhabitants of the slave States, your legislators to abolish slavery by the year 1850, or now, and save the abolitionist from reproach and ruin,9 KB (1,396 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...a ''Protestant'' invention that was used as a religious justification for slavery in the 1800's. ...se of Cain" is a Protestant invention that was created in order to justify slavery in the 1800's. One would get the impression listening to critics that the L8 KB (1,248 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024