Item Detail
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9918
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7
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8
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English
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Charles B. Thompson and the Issues of Slavery and Race
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Journal of Mormon History
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1981
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8
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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37-47
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This article explores the racial theories of Charles B. Thompson, a religious peripatetic who at various times adhered to Methodism, Mormonism, Strangism, and even his own religious movement. Thompson argued that blacks sprang from the subhuman, Nachash, whose ancestry was independent to that of Adam's. As a result of this relationship, blacks were destined to serve whites as their masters. Summary: 'Even though Charles Blancher Thompson himself was a minor figure within the context of Mormonism and American society at large during the ante-bellum and post-Civil War periods, this colorful individual through his attitudes toward slavery, race, and black people articulated Mormon racist ideas in their most extreme form and at the same time reflected many of the attitudes held by contemporary non-Mormon Americans.' (p. 47)
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