437: Elijah Abel - Early Black Mormon Priesthood Holder Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

As an independent historian, Russell Stevenson has been studying Mormon history for nearly two decades. His first book, Black Mormon: The Story of Elijah Ables, tells the vexing story of race in nineteenth-century Mormonism through experiences of Elijah Ables, a biracial man ordained to the priesthood during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. Drawing on documents unused in other treatments, Black Mormon is the first effort to understand Elijah Ables in all of his identities: black, male, Mormon, and priesthood holder.

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0:29.0	Alright, so he has this new bride.
0:32.4	He's got one to two kids with her and they eventually move to Utah in the 50s.
0:38.1	Yes, they arrive in fall of 1853.
0:42.0	Okay, alright.
0:45.5	And what do we know about their time there?
0:49.0	Well, in order to understand their time there, we actually need to backtrack a little bit.
0:54.8	We don't need to spend too much time on this.
0:59.2	Some key events happened in the Mormon community, in the white Mormon community in 1847.
1:05.0	That would cause whatever tolerance for black people that existed to fracture.
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