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In this episode, Dave reviews why (and how) early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were persecuted and forced out of Jackson County, Missouri, in 1833.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3ku4gbZ
-Read the “Manifesto of the Mob” (also referred to as the “secret constitution”) as reported by the December 1833 issue of “The Evening and Morning Star” (then being printed in Kirtland). This is the document which called for the July 20, 1833, meeting which resulted in the destruction of the Saints’ newspaper in Missouri (see also an article titled “Mormonism,” published on August 2nd, 1833 by the Western Monitor, which reports on the proceedings of the July 20th meeting. Article reproduced in “History of the Church” vol. 1, pg 395-399): https://bit.ly/35m0Pvk
-Report on the expulsion from Missouri as reported by John Corrill in “The Evening and Morning Star,” Jan. 1834: https://bit.ly/2ToKhQt
-More on the expulsion as reported in the Jan. 1834 issue of “The Evening and Morning Star”: https://bit.ly/3vnOZvg
-More on the expulsion as reported in the Feb. 1834 issue of “The Evening and Morning Star”: https://bit.ly/2TwDxAc
-More on the expulsion as reported in the Jan. 1840 issue of “Times and Seasons”: https://bit.ly/3xnXtDP
-More on the expulsion as reported in the July 18, 1843 issue of “Times and Seasons” (pg. 263): https://bit.ly/3iKzRVN
-Why did Missourians think Latter-day Saints were inviting freed slaves into Zion? Here’s the original article from the July 1833 issue of “The Evening and Morning Star” which caused the issues: https://bit.ly/3vnnbah A couple of days later, the Star published an extra to clarify the issue, which you can read here: https://bit.ly/2Tyn7qL (be aware that the extra does not reflect the policy of the Church then or now. The editor took liberties with the extra, hoping to quell the unrest the previous article had caused).
-“Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833,” by Richard Bushman: https://bit.ly/3zqWHb6
-For a map of where Latter-day Saint communities in Jackson county were, check out page 6 of this Mormon Historical Studies publication: https://bit.ly/2SBWAc1
-“Saints” Vol. 1, chapters 16-17 (also see related citations): https://bit.ly/3wv5wyU
-See also: “Missouri Persecutions,” by B. H. Roberts; “History of the Church,” Vol. 1 (starting with chapter 27 [pg. 72]); “Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt,” chapters 13-14; “Essentials in Church History,” by Joseph Fielding Smith, part 3.
Notes:
– Of the state of the Saints on the banks of the Missouri river, the “Millennial Star,” vol. 14, pg. 582, says: “November 7th. The shore began to be lined on both sides of the ferry, with men, women, and children, goods, wagons, boxes, chests, provisions, &c.; while the ferrymen were busily employed in crossing them over; and when night again closed upon the Saints, the wilderness had much the appearance of a camp meeting. Hundreds of people were seen in every direction; some in tents, and some in the open air, around their fires, while the rain descended in torrents. Husbands were enquiring for their wives, and women for their husbands; parents for children, and children for parents. Some had the good fortune to escape with their family, household goods, and some provisions; while others knew not the fate of their friends, and had lost all their goods. The scene was indescribable, and would have melted the hearts of any people upon the earth, except the blind oppressor, and prejudiced and ignorant bigot.”
– After the main body of Saints had been driven from their homes, mobs hunted down even the more isolated Saints in Jackson County, and forced them out.
-As mentioned in the video, the Missourians complained that the Saints’ local newspaper was inviting freed slaves to join them in Zion. This was a misinterpretation of the newspaper, which was even later clarified, but despite the clarification the citizens of Jackson county still brought it up in the July 20th meeting as an issue.
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