Middlebury Free Press reports on how the "Mormonites" have an African American member ("Black Pete") who believes he can fly.

Date
Aug 3, 1831
Type
Periodical
Source
Middlebury Free Press
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Journalism
Reference

“Mormonites,” Middlebury Free Press, August 3, 1831, 1

Scribe/Publisher
Middlebury Free Press
People
"Black Pete", Middlebury Free Press
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

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.

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