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English
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The Mormons and Slavery--a Closer Look
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African Americans on the Western Frontier
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Boulder
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University Press of Colorado
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24-36
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"The fact that the Latter-day Saints treated their slaves with some significant concessions to their status as humans did not mean that white Mormons believed in the equality of their African American fellow churchmen. The Utah legislature passed several segregation laws, and the church hierarchy refused to allow black men to become 'priests' (a lay status afforded to most white men automatically) or to participate in other denominational rites. Mormon leaders may have exhibited some ambivalence about slavery, but they were united in their belief that they were socially superior to African Americans." [Editor's abstract]