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2 days ago · Interested in publishing the journals of Mormons that practiced polygamy during the nineteenth century, Kraut became aware of the Life Story shortly before the first appearance of the addendum. Around the same time as Pioneer Press published The Life Story of Mosiah Hancock, Kraut published excerpts from the journals of Mary E. Lightner and Charles Walker, which contained statements supporting ...
16 hours ago · According to a survey conducted between November 9, 2019, and June 2, 2020, Pew Research found that 78% of Black American adults have a religious affiliation compared to 72% of American adults generally, and about 75% of Black American adults identify as Christian (66% Protestant Christian, 6% Catholic Christian, and 3% Other Christian) compared to 66% of the general US adult population.
1 day ago · The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
2 days ago · The church played an important role in defeating same-sex marriage legalization in six US states in the late 1990s and early 2000s. [116] Nearly every decade for over a century—beginning with the church's formation in the 1830s until the 1970s—saw some denunciations of interracial marriages ( miscegenation ), with most statements focusing on Black–White marriages.
2 days ago · Women’s Convention, an auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention. In the face of rampant racial prejudice and in the shadow of an early twentieth century women’s suffrage movement, black Baptist women carved out “sacred space” in the institutional black Church for the purposes of self-definition, self-determination, and self-esteem.
3 days ago · Like all slave narratives, Jacobs’s and Douglass’s works embody the tension between the conflicting motives that generated autobiographies of slave life. An ironic factor in the production of these accounts can be noted in the generic title “Fugitive Slave Narrative” often given to such works.
5 days ago · Primary sources on the transatlantic slave trade, abolitionist movements, institution of slavery in the US and Latin America, and emancipation. Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
