William Clayton reports Alexander Badlam commenting on the "unfortunate race of beings the negroes."
- Type
- Meeting Minutes / Notes
- Source
- Alexander Badlam LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Council of Fifty, Minutes, Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, 10 Mar. 1844; in Council of Fifty, “Record,” 7, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed May 13, 2021
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
We have it in our minds to go to the table lands of Texas to a point we may find to be the most eligible, there locate, and let it be a place of gathering for all the South (they being incumbered with that unfortunate race of beings the negroes) and for us to employ our time and talents in gathering together means to build according to the commandments of our God.
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