Item Detail
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25938
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5
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19
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English
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To the "Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty" : Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843-44
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Journal of Mormon History
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Winter 2013
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39
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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36-67
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With the 1844 presidential election a year away, the Mormon community renewed its efforts to have its members' rights and property restored arising from the persecutions they faced in Missouri during the 1830s. Following years of disappointment in presenting legal memorials accompanied by hundreds of individual affadavits to the Missouri state and U.S. federal governments to gain redress, the Mormon leaders realized they would have to promote new approaches and attempt fresh tactics to raise awareness of their struggle among the American public. [From the article]
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Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 14: 1 January-15 May 1844
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 15: 16 May-28 June 1844 -
A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
Bones in the Well : The Haun's Mill Massacre, 1838, A Documentary History
Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, or Latter-day Saints from the State of Missouri, under the 'Exterminating Order'
History of the Late Persecution Inflicted by the State of Missouri Upon the Mormons
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's New England Heritage
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844
Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence : The Mormons
Mormon Redress Petitions : Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 2 : Published Revelations
The Mormons : From Poverty and Persecution to Prosperity and Power
The Political Legacy of Joseph Smith
The Rhetoric of Persecution : Mormon Crisis Rhetoric From 1838-1871
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Zion Rising : Joseph Smith's Early Social and Political Thought