Item Detail
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25946
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46
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English
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"A Negro Preacher" : The Worlds of Elijah Ables
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 2013
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39
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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165-254
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Elijah Ables knew how to make an impression. As one of the first African American priesthood holders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he evoked strong loyalties and rabid hatred. One of his converts, a young mother named Eunice Ross Kinney, remembered him over fifty years after her baptism, in spite of decades of disillusionment and pain: "I know of no person living that I would be so glad to see as him." He could incite detractors to irrational anger. As a mixed-blood Mormon, he embodied the racial anxieties that haunted American Mormonism as it sought to define itself within a society dominated by white Protestants. Hunted by mobs, criticized by fellow Mormons, and denied temple privileges by two priesthood leaders, Ables seldom received the welcoming hand of friendship. But Ables did not leave. [From the article]
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