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Journal Article

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Rogers, Brent M.

To the "Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty" : Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843-44

Journal of Mormon History

Winter 2013

39

1

Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon History Association

2013

36-67

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]

http://www.jstor.org/stable/24243744

Social and cultural history, 19th century
Politics, U.S., 19th century
Utah, politics, 19th century, American setting

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Bones in the Well : The Haun's Mill Massacre, 1838, A Documentary History
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Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
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The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 2 : Published Revelations
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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
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