Elder Lorenzo Snow presented the case of the Africans wishing to know the chance of their redemption. Pres[iden]t Young replied with much clearness that the curse remained upon them because Cain cut off the lines of Abel to prevent him and his posterity getting the ascendancy over himself & his generations, and to get the lead himself, his own offering not being accepted of God while Abels was. But the Lord has cursed Cain's seed with blacknes [sic] & prohibited them the Priesthood that Abel & his progeny may yet come forward & have their dominion place and Blessings in their proper relationship with Cain & his race in a world to come.