Saints, slaves, and blacks : the changing place of black people within Mormonism / Newell G. Bringhurst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bringhurst, Newell G., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

History.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Mormon Church--History.

Race relations.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.

Melchizedek Priesthood (Latter Day Saint doctrine).

African American Latter Day Saints.

Latter Day Saint churches--Doctrines.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Greg Kofford Books, 2018.

Contents:

Initial Latter-day Saint racist and antislavery attitudes, 1820-1830

The origins of Mormon antiabolitionism, 1830-1839

Black Mormons and Mormon racist theories, 1830-1839

The climax of Mormonism's antislavery impulse, 1839-1852

The beginnings of black priesthood denial, 1839-1852

Concurrent antiabolitionist and antislavery rhetoric, 1852-1865

Black priesthood denial publicized and reinforced, 1852-1865

The perpetuation of black priesthood denial, 1865-1918

Segregation, civil rights, and black priesthood denial, 1918-1978

Epilogue : the abandonment of black priesthood denial

Postscript / by W. Paul Reeve

Postscript / by Darron T. Smith

Appendix A : membership totals and the shifting geographic-ethnic focus of the Latter-day Saint movement, 1830-1980

Appendix B : a brief essay on Mormon socioeconomic origins and their possible relationship to Latter-day Saint racial attitudes

Appendix C : Mormon slaveholders, black slaves, free blacks, and census information on Utah's black population, 1830-1980

Appendix D : official LDS church statements on blacks and the priesthood and civil rights

Appendix E : an unintended and difficult odyssey

Bibliographic essay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781589586499

1589586492

OCLC:

1027770381

Publisher Number:

99976801961