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English
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Black Mormon : The Story of Elijah Ables
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United States
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing
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Drawing on unpublished documents from the LDS Church History Archives, this volume presents the story of Elijah Ables, the first black Mormon priesthood holder. A committed friend of Joseph Smith, Elijah Ables fiercely upheld institutional Mormonism when other Mormons refused. In turn, Joseph Smith faced down criticism from within in order to create a safe space for Ables to thrive. The Saints' memories of their friendship continued well into the twentieth-century.
As a man scorned and ostracized, Ables stuck by the faith he loved to the day of his death. Ables' story shows reveals the human struggles of the Mormon community to live up to its founding vision of racial inclusiveness. We see the depths of Joseph Smith's constant battle to defuse the criticism of slaveholders and racists from within the faith, Brigham Young's personal struggles with racism, and the chorus line of ordinary Saints as they tried to live up to Joseph Smith's dreams of a Zion community.
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Against the Grain : Memoirs of a Western Historian
Among the Mormons in the Days of Brigham Young
Assassination of a Michigan King : The Life of James Jesse Strang
A Test of Faith : Jane Elizabeth James and the Origin of the Utah Black Community
Authorship of the History of Brigham Young : A Review Essay
Dreamers of Zion : Joseph Smith and George J. Adams : Conviction, Leadership, and Israel's Renewal
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Edward Partridge : The First Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States
"God Has Made Us a Kingdom" : James Strang and the Midwest Mormons
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
"I Would Confine Them to Their Own Species" : LDS Historical Rhetoric & Praxis
Regarding Marriage Between Whites and Blacks
John Elliot Tullidge, the Influence of His Life and Works on the Musical Culture of Utah
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Kirtland Council Minute Book
Life of Franklin D. Richards : President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Life of Joseph the Prophet
Mormonism, Millenarianism, and Missouri
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Pioneer Women : The Lives of Women on the Frontier
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Regional Studies in latter-day Saint Church History : Ohio and Upper Canada
Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Shadows on the Sun Dial : John E. Page and the Strangites
Social Accommodation in Utah
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt : The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The Kirtland Safety Society : The Stock Ledger Book and the Bank Failure
The Life Incidents and Travels of Elder William Holmes Walker and his Association with Joseph Smith the Prophet
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Missouri Mormon Experience
The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis : "An Example for His More Whiter Brethren to Follow"
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
The Office Journal of President Brigham Young 1858-1863, Book D
The Politicization of Religious Dissent : Mormonism in Upper Canada (1833-1843)
The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888-1963
The Saintly Scoundrel : The life and times of Dr. John Cook Bennett
The Teachings of President Brigham Young Vol. 3, 1852–1854
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
Utah Indians and the Indian Slave Trade : The Mormon Adoption Program and Its Effect on the Indian Slaves
William Clayton's Journal : A Daily Record of the Journal of the Original Company of 'Mormon' Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake