Twenty-Eight (1833)been the case. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught this doctrine.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, “Editors’
Table,” Improvement Era 27 [1924] 564.)
Did Brigham Young foresee this event when he facetiously requested that his coffin be built
“deep enough” so “if I wanted to turn a little,...I should have plenty of room to do so”? (Preston
Nibley, Brigham Young, the Man and His Work [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1960] 536.)
(^71) D&C, 58:50.
(^72) D&C, 58:37; 44–5; 48–9; 51–3.
(^73) D&C, 64:41–3.
(^74) Compare BOM, 1 Nephi 13:7–8.
(^75) Compare BOM, 1 Nephi 2:20, Mosiah 25:24.
(^76) “Beginning in the 1810’s and lasting into the 1850’s, thousands of Upper South pioneers
crossed the Mississippi River and headed West and settling in Missouri’s central and western
Missouri River valley. From a predominately Scotch-Irish yeoman and planter class, these new
Missourians believed that economic independence and social standing could be achieved from riches
obtained through the practice of traditional agriculture. ...Missouri’s central and western Missouri
River valley pioneers practiced a system of diversified farming coupled with the raising of cash
crops. In the fertile hills and valleys of this region, an area that was later dubbed ‘Little Dixie,’ the
Southern farmer and planter...cultivated...cash crops, like hemp and tobacco, and maintained a large
slave population for cheap labor.” (Gary Gene Fuenfhausen, “The Cotton Culture of Missouri’s Little
Dixie,” Midwest OpenAir Museums Magazine 22 [Summer 2001]: 1–18);
“Hemp was first grown in Missouri in 1835. By 1840, the ‘Show Me’ state produced 12,500
tons.” (John Dvorak, “America’s Harried Hemp History,” Hemphasis, late 2004);
“Although up until the Civil War hemp cultivation flourished in several states, the lack of
slaves after the war significantly affected cultivation. Since hemp is a labor-intensive crop and there
was no cheap labor available anymore, farmers began to stop cultivating it because it became less
profitable than other farming ventures.” (“Hemp Production,” 4 Jun. 2011
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/students/marques/PRODUCT.HTM.)
(^77) Missouri Mormon Walking Tour | 11. Boggs Home” Independence Missouri, 2011, City
of Independence, Missouri, 4 Jun. 2011
http://www.indepmo.org/comdev/HP_WalkingTours_Mormon.aspx.
(^78) See DHC, 4:40, 80.
(^79) Compare D&C, 58:50.
(^80) “Petition, also, ye goodly inhabitants of the slave States, your legislators to abolish
slavery by the year 1850, or now, and save the abolitionist from reproach and ruin, infamy and
shame. Pray Congress to pay every man a reasonable price for his slaves out of the surplus
revenue arising from the sale of the public lands, and from the deduction of pay from the
members of Congress. Break off the shackles from the poor black man, and hire him to labor like
other human beings; ...more equality through the cities, towns, and country, would make less
distinction among the people. Oh, then, create confidence, restore freedom, break down
slavery...and be in love, fellowship, and peace with all the world!” (Joseph Smith, “History of
Joseph Smith | Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States,”
Millennial Star 22 [Nov. 24, 1860]: 743, emphasis added. See also DHC, 3:XXVI and n. [†].)
(^81) “ 1850 Twelve Mormon slave owners possess between 60 and 70 black slaves in Deseret
Territory. There is one Apostle, Charles C. Rich, among these slave owners.” (Mel Tungate,
“Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the Priesthood,” 19 Mar. 2006, Mel Tungate, 3 Jun. 2011
http://www.tungate.com/chronology.htm); January 23, 1852: “Brigham Young instructs [the]
Utah Legislature to legalize slavery because ‘we must believe in slavery.’”; Aug 20, 1859: The “New
York Daily Tribune publishes Horace Greeley’s recent interview with Brigham Young: ‘HG: What is
the position of your church with respect to slavery?’ ‘BY: We consider it of divine institution, and not