Elders' Journal says there are Black people who "[wear] white skins."

Date
Aug 1838
Type
Periodical
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Elders' Journal 1, no. 4 (August 1838): 59

Scribe/Publisher
Elders' Journal
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., Warren Parrish
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

His sons, in violation of every sacred obligation, were found among the number of granny Parrish’s men, using all there influence (which however was nothing; but they were none the less guilty for that, for if it had been ever so great it would have been used) to destroy the benefactors of their family, who raised their family from rags, poverty, and wretchedness. One thing we have learned, that there are negroes who were white skins, as well as those who wear black ones.

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