I Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy podcast.

I'm your host Lindsay and today

we're going to sort of resurrect an episode from the Color of Heaven series that we did which

is no longer online. I've got to get it online. It's just my server crashed. It was on an old Mormon

expression server and we haven't really ever moved the stuff over. So it's just something that I

haven't done. But we have a lot of good content there and I'm going to use some of that today.

We're going to be talking about Boston Mormons and a really unique idea about why maybe

Brigham Young started to develop these ideas on race. As we're talking about in our last episode,

Massachusetts Mormons were really progressive on the idea of race and slavery.

Brigham Young comes from Massachusetts. So why would he become known as sort of the symbol,

this figurehead for a Mormon racism, for miscegenation and

blood atonement and not, you know, not allowing black people and white people to get married

and all of those things. Where does that come from? Well, the fantastic historian, Connell

O'Donovan, posits that Brigham Young might not have always been that way, that maybe his pride was hurt

later on because Brigham Young really struggled at first when he entered the principle of plural

marriage to get women to accept him. And yet we do know some stories of a lot of, of not a lot,

several black Mormon men who seem to have no problem finding plural wives who

were white. So we're going to dive into that today, the history of the Massachusetts Mormons,

and see what that means. And I just want to give a shout out to Connolly O'Donovan,

whose work allowed all this research to happen. We're going to, this episode is very dense.

There's a lot to talk about.

We've got co-hosts, friends of mine, Gina Colvin from A Thoughtful Faith,

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