Edward Patridge relates how a team of Black people carried goods to the saints and were attacked.
Edward Partridge, History, Manuscript, circa 1839, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed May 12, 2021
"A wealthy farmer living in Clay Co. who was then friendly to the saints and who was in the habit of sending flour & whiskey into Jackson to sell, it generally being higher there than in Clay, sent over his negro team with a load of flour & Whisky they were stopped on the road <by the good people of Jackson Co.> and the flour & whisky barrels cut to pieces with an axe and their contents wasted."