Middlebury Free Press reports on how the "Mormonites" have an African American member ("Black Pete") who believes he can fly.
“Mormonites,” Middlebury Free Press, August 3, 1831, 1
The Mormonites have among them an African, (or, Garrison would say, an Africo-American,) who fancies he can fly.—Caesar at one time, took it into his head to try his wings: he accordingly chose the elevated bank of Lake Erie as a starting place, and, spreading his pinions, he lit on a tree-top some fifty feet below, sustaining no other damage than the demolition of his faith in wings without feathers.