FS recites conventional thought re: premortal justification of restriction.

Date
1880
Type
Book
Source
Fanny Stenhouse
Resigned
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

T.B.H. Stenhouse, An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880), 227

Scribe/Publisher
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, Rivington
People
Fanny Stenhouse
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

The spirits who stood neutral during the fight subsequently took upon them forms of flesh, entering into the children of Ham, and were known as negroes. Therefore it is, that although the American Indians and all other races are eligible for the Mormon priesthood, the negro alone can never attain to that high dignity.

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