Reeve speculates that "Black" Peter Kerr may have been ordained to the priesthood.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- W. Paul Reeve LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (New York : Oxford University Press, 2015), 112
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- Oxford University Press
- People
- W. Paul Reeve
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
As many as two hundred adults at Kirtland converted to Mormonism in 1830, with Black Pete prominent among them. He may have been ordained to the priesthood although proof of an ordination is not conclusive. His presence as an early Mormon was nonetheless see as newsworthy among outsiders. The New York Albany Journal reported in February 1831 that among the Mormons in Ohio was "a man of color, a chief man, who is sometimes seized with strange vagaries and odd conceits." In August of the same year The Philadephia Sun announced that "The Mormonites have among them an African . . . who fancies he can fly."
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