Your postings are the best short history course I have read in a long while, you are doing a great job of conveying the feel of the times, and context for the events. Thanks, I think you are making many of us want to look deeper into the roots of this group.
“Your postings are the best short history course I have read in a long while, you are doing a great job of conveying the feel of the times, and context for the events. Thanks, I think you are making many of us want to look deeper into the roots of this group.”
Your reward for being nice to me is a juicy link that goes into racism - I think on both sides, in Jackson County. It is Parley Pratt’s history and is obviously pro-Mormon to the hilt, except he is fair enough to quote the antis (unlike some here). The kicker is that after quoting a letter from the antis accusing the Mormons of being anti-slavery, good ole Parley says why no, they hadn’t allowed more than five or six blacks in. Interpretation is up for grabs.
Parley Pratt, Mitt’s great great grandad /polygamist /murderer/ wife stealer / Apostle / probable Danite.
[Fourthly, concerning free negroes and mulattoes.—Do not the laws of Missouri provide abundantly for the removal from the state of all free negroes and mulattoes? (except certain privileged ones;) and also for the punishment of those who introduce or harbor them? The statement concerning our invitation to them to become Mormons, and remove to this state, and settle among us, is a wicked fabrication, as no such thing was ever published in the Star, or anywhere else, by our people, nor anything in the shadow of it; and we challenge the people of Jackson, or any other people, to produce such a publication from us.
In fact, one half dozen negroes or mulattoes, never have belonged to our society, in any part of the world, from its first organization to this day, 1839. ]
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/PPratt-pers.html
If you like one sided histories that are slanted against Mormons then FC is your guy. I've seen post after post of his refuted by LDS apologists but FC refuses to accept anything coming from them.
...you are doing a great job of conveying the feel of the times, and context for the events.
He certainly does convey the feelings of those who are against the Mormons. What about the other side of the story?
Thanks, I think you are making many of us want to look deeper into the roots of this group.
Please take the time to get a balanced picture of these events. There were over 30,000 Mormons living in the Nauvoo area at the time of Joseph Smiths assassination. The bulk of the church ended up going west to escape the "fellowship" of their neighbors in Illinois and Missouri. Take some time to find out what their stories were.