Adherents.com (Memento des Originals vom 4. Juni 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.adherents.com quoting Deseret News 1999–2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998, S. 119. “A rough estimate would place the number of Church members with African roots at year-end 1997 at half a million, with about 100,000 each in Africa and the Caribbean, and another 300,000 in Brazil.”
Adherents.com (Memento des Originals vom 4. Juni 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.adherents.com quoting Deseret News 1999–2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998, S. 119. “A rough estimate would place the number of Church members with African roots at year-end 1997 at half a million, with about 100,000 each in Africa and the Caribbean, and another 300,000 in Brazil.”
United States. Congress: The Congressional Globe, Part 2. Blair & Rives, 1857, S.287 (google.com).
Ronald G. Coleman: African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000. Hrsg.: Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma 2008, ISBN 978-0-8061-3979-1, ‘Is There No Blessing For Me?’: Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a Mormon African American Woman, S.144–162 (google.com): „Jane Elizabeth James never understood the continued denial of her church entitlements. Her autobiography reveals a stubborn adherence to her church even when it ignored her pleas.“
John David Smith: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. (google.com).
John Todd: Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa; Or, Reminiscences. S.134–137 (google.com).
Don B. Williams: Slavery in Utah Territory: 1847–1865. (google.com).
Brigham Young told Greeley: “If slaves are brought here by those who owned them in the states, we do not favor their escape from the service of their owners.” (see Greeley, Overland Journey, S. 211–212) quoted in Terry L. Givens, Philip L. Barlow: The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism. S.383 (google.com).
W. Kesler Jackson: Elijah Abel: The Life and Times of a Black Priesthood Holder. (google.com).
Brigham Young: The Teachings of President Brigham Young: Vol. 3 1852–1854. Colliers Publishing Company, 1987; abgerufen im 1. Januar 1: „let my seed mingle with the seed of Cain, and that brings the curse upon me and upon my generations; we will reap the same rewards with Cain. In the priesthood I will tell you what it will do. Were the children of God to mingle their seed with the seed of Cain it would not only bring the curse of being deprived of the power of the priesthood upon themselves but they entail it upon their children after them, and they cannot get rid of it.“
Roger D. Launius: Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet. (google.com).
Brigham Young (January 23, 1852). “We Must Believe in Slavery” (see also The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2009), 1, S. 473–474; The Teachings of President Brigham Young, Volume 3: 1852–1854, comp. and ed. Fred C. Collier (Salt Lake City: Collier’s Publishing, 1987), S. 26–29.)
Brigham Young: We Must Believe in Slavery. 23. Januar 1852; abgerufen im 1. Januar 1. (see also The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2009), 1:473-74; The Teachings of President Brigham Young, Volume 3: 1852–1854, comp. and ed. Fred C. Collier (Salt Lake City: Collier’s Publishing, 1987), 26–29.)
Interracial Marriage Discouraged.Church News, 17. Juni 1978, S. 2.: “Now, the brethren feel that it is not the wisest thing to cross racial lines in dating and marrying. There is no condemnation. We have had some of our fine young people who have crossed the lines. We hope they will be very happy, but experience of the brethren through a hundred years has proved to us that marriage is a very difficult thing under any circumstances and the difficulty increases in interrace marriages.”
Adherents.com (Memento des Originals vom 4. Juni 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.adherents.com quoting Deseret News 1999–2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998, S. 119. “A rough estimate would place the number of Church members with African roots at year-end 1997 at half a million, with about 100,000 each in Africa and the Caribbean, and another 300,000 in Brazil.”
Philip Jenkins: Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa. In: Journal of Mormon History. 35. Jahrgang, Nr.2, 2009 (usu.edu [abgerufen am 16. Dezember 2012]).
Hamil R. Harris: Mindful of history, Mormon Church reaches out to minorities In: Washington Post, 17. Februar 2012. Abgerufen am 29. Februar 2012 „a period of more than 120 years during which black men were essentially barred from the priesthood and few Americans of color were active in the faith.“
Adherents.com (Memento des Originals vom 4. Juni 2011 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.adherents.com quoting Deseret News 1999–2000 Church Almanac. Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah 1998, S. 119. “A rough estimate would place the number of Church members with African roots at year-end 1997 at half a million, with about 100,000 each in Africa and the Caribbean, and another 300,000 in Brazil.”