Elijah Abel
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Elijah Abel, or Able or Ables was one of the earliest African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was the church's first African-American elder and Seventy. Abel w
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Black people and Mormonism
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During the history of the Latter Day Saint movement, the relationship between Black people and Mormonism has included enslavement, exclusion and inclusion, and official and unofficial discrimination.
Elijah Abel
…Foundation and the Genesis Group, to memorialize Abel, his wife, and his descendants. The monument was dedicated by LDS Church Apostle M. Russell Ballard. Black people and early Mormonism Black people and Mormonism…
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, expressed a range of views about Black people throughout his life.
Noah cursing Ham. Smith and Young taught that Black people had the curse of Ham and the curse of Cain.
Biddy Mason was one of 14 Black people who sued for their freedom after being illegally held captive by white Mormons in San Bernardino, California.