Item Detail
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29329
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3
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English
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Black Saviors on Mount Zion : Proxy Baptisms and Latter-day Saints of African Descent
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Journal of Mormon History
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October 2017
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43
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4
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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100-123
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The article explores the history of the policy governing the practice of allowing or disallowing Mormons of African descent to participate in vicarious baptism. Topics covered include temple restrictions placed on Mormon members of African descent, proxy baptisms done by Latter-Saints of African descent and the policy formulated by President Brigham Young and other Church leaders on the worthiness of men of African descent to hold the priesthood.