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26001
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English
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Curses and Marks : Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2015
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41
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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22-57
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Between 1830 and 1842, Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. produced scripture for the Latter-day Saint movement - his revision of the King James Bible, and the Book of Abraham - that reported a providential history in which the God of Genesis took an active interest in dark skin color as a mark of divinely instituted curses. By the opening of the twentieth century, the racial narratives in Smith's Bible revision and the Book of Abraham became major sources of justification for this policy, which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discontinued in 1978. [From the article]
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