Omaha Daily Bee mentions Latter-day Saint racial attitudes toward Black people and the baptism of slaves.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Unknown Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim2nd HandLateJournalism
- Reference
"To which is added a few words on worldly matters," Omaha Daily Bee, April 30, 1883, 2
- Scribe/Publisher
- Omaha Daily Bee
- People
- Unknown
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
"Nobody ever saw a dead donkey," said Sam Weller. "In these days it may be safely asserted that nobody ever saw a negro Mormon. " The above is going the rounds, but it is incorrect. Any one interested can find a number of colored "Saints" in Salt Lake City. One of the grievances urged nearly fifty years ago against the Mormons in Missouri was that they were baptizing their neighbors slaves.
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