Item Detail
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4211
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English
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The Mormon Connection : Lincoln, the Saints, and the Crisis of Equality
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Western Humanities Review
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Winter 1980
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34
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1-22
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Briefly traces concepts of equality during the Enlightenment, then discusses these ideas in 19th century America, particularly among the Mormons, led by Joseph Smith, who relocated numerous times to pursue without harrassment their own ideas of equality; focuses on the Mormons' influence on Abraham Lincoln's political career, and his ideas on equality, slavery, and polygamy, from 1840 to the early 1860s.