I am Ryan McKnight.

I'm Kara Santa Maria.

I am Christopher Smith.

Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.

This is Naked Mormonism.

The Serial Mormon History Podcast.

The meltdown had begun.

It was a fire sale in Navu to preserve what little bits of reputation that could be salvaged from the wreckage.

The revelations were quickly coming to light across the country that threatened Joseph Smith in the church.

How could they possibly stop the remainder of Bennett's exposés coming to the public eye?

They couldn't.

All that Joe and the rest of the Mormon elite could do was act out of self-preservation. It was all reactionary. The next issue of the Sangamow Journal, after the initial

printing, reveals some interesting developments since Bennett's first letter had gone public the way

before. The movements within Navu are quite fascinating as well.

Bennett wasn't alone in his descent.

He was just the most public and most willing to openly oppose Joe and the Navu theocracy.

Sidney Rigden, largely due to Joe locking his daughter Nancy in a room and forcefully

propositioning her, along with

Rigdon's son-in-law, George W. Robinson, Francis Higby, and all of these prominent figures in

Navu Mormonism were showing signs that they were fed up with it. One of the more notable of these

prominent figures was Orson Pratt. Let's spend some time talking about Orson and his partner, Sarah Pratt, today.

What happened with them? What happened with Sarah Pratt specifically? What caused her to become

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