Twenty-Eight (1833)and dark-skinned people are “cursed.” Indeed, the accounts in the book of Genesis were
used to justify the division of race. Genesis tells the story of Cain and Abel, when Cain kills
Abel and, as a punishment, “the Lord set a mark upon Cain.” Although the mark is not
specified, the story of Noah explained the existence of the dark-skinned race by having one
of the four surviving men, Ham, married to a Canaanite. There is a problem with the story
of Noah as told by the Jews, though, because it absolutely does not account for other, even
blacker-skinned races, such as the Africans, surviving the Great Flood. No one can argue the
fact that the African races are in no part mixed with white blood.
While one may pick apart the details of the five books of Moses, the Jews and their
later counterparts, the Christians, have an even larger problem: none of the stories found in
the first five books of Moses (Torah) are true—not one! In English, these five books of Moses
are known as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—and, yes, they are
all based on myth. However, true or not, the stories created and justified bigotry, racial
inequality, and religious prejudice against the darker-skinned races, and the belief of
superiority by the whites.^7
The people had the choice to accept the stories as true and support bigotry, racial
inequality, and religious prejudice, or not. At the time the Book of Mormon was introduced to
the world, the people had chosen to believe the Bible and support the inhumane treatment
of other people, based solely on the color of their skin and their rejection of orthodox
religion. With the introduction of the Book of Mormon, the “word of God” finally had its
counterbalance—something to equalize the supposed valuation of other races in “God’s
word” by those who thought themselves superior by virtue of heritage and skin color.
The Book of Mormon teaches that the American/European way of life and the way
these people viewed “black, bond, female, and the heathen”^8 (and still do to a great extent)
was an iniquity, and that “all are alike unto God.”^9 It teaches that “the Spirit of Christ is
given to every man.”^10 It teaches that “it is against the law of our brethren...that there
should be any slaves among them.”^11 The book is explicit in its depiction of the people who
had slaves and those who did not. Those who had slaves were wicked and those who did
not were righteous—it is distinctly obvious!
An Enslaved People
The European and American cultures would not have existed, nor could they as they
do today, without slavery. Capitalism and the free market system cannot exist without
slavery. Explained by the author of the book of Revelation himself:
“Freedom” is an abstract idea perpetuated by those in power over others.
Evident forced slavery has simply been replaced with tacit slavery. Rising to
the sound of a rooster’s crow to harness the mule to the plow has been
replaced with the obtrusive sound of an alarm clock that signals the beginning
of another enslaved day. In both types of slavery, the wise ones are forced to
work or they will die. The former was provided food, clothing, and shelter; the
latter is given a piece of paper that must be exchanged for commodities owned
by another slave owner.The slave’s desire to live enriches the landowner for whom he or she works,
and also the merchant from whom he or she must purchase life. The former