Assembling the record of a Mormon controversy
Matthew L. Harris is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is the coauthor of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America. Newell G. Bringhurst is a professor emeritus of history and political science at College of the Sequoias. He is the author of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Blacks within Mormonism.
"A great resource for the serious inquirer as it combines
previously known data with new source information thereby adding to
the scholarship on this much considered subject."--Darius A.
Gray
"Unique in its presentation of primary documents that are well
explained and contextualized. Many are extremely important for our
understanding of the historical trajectory of LDS thinking about
African Americans and the priesthood."--Laurie Maffly-Kipp, author
of Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race
Histories
"A welcome addition to Mormon Studies."--Nova Religio
"Harris and Bringhurst offer an informed view of behind-the-scenes
Church politicking before and after the ban. The result is an
essential resource for experts and laymen alike on a
much-misunderstood aspect of Mormon history and belief." -- Reading
Religion
"The attitude and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in regard to people of African descent… have
fluctuated over the years of the church's history, varying from
relative indifference in the earliest years, through many decades
of exclusion and derogation, both by leaders and members, to
today's nominal acceptance into full fellowship, activity, and
equality. This volume is chronological documentary history of the
entire saga… The authors/editors generally avoid stating their own
opinions or conclusions, which allows readers to evaluate the
material themselves. This is, in my opinion, a mark of a well-made
documentary history."--Richard Packham, Association for Mormon
Letters
"The Mormon Church and Blacks is a valuable contribution to the
study of race within Mormonism."--Journal of Mormon History
"This volume is a chronological documentary history of the entire
saga. . . . The authors/editors generally avoid stating their own
opinions or conclusions, which allows readers to evaluate the
material themselves. This is, in my opinion, a mark of a well-made
documentary history."--Richard Packham, the Association for Mormon
Letters
"This volume represents a long overdue documentary history of
Mormonism and black priesthood denial that includes the essential
primary sources on the subject. The strength here is in the
twentieth and twenty-first century chapters, previously
underexplored eras in the changing status of blackness within
Mormonism."--W. Paul Reeve, author of Religion of a Different
Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
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