Zebedee Coltrin
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Zebedee Coltrin was a Mormon pioneer and a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1835 to 1837. He served in later years as a patriarch in the church, from 1873 unti
Zebedee Coltrin
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.
Zebedee Coltrin
…the next two years, with Coltrin ordaining and setting apart many of their number, including, on December 20, 1836, in the Kirtland Temple, Elijah Abel—one of the first African Americans originally permitted by Joseph Smith to hold the priesthood. Later, Coltrin stated that in 1834, Joseph Smith had told Coltrin that…
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, expressed a range of views about Black people throughout his life.
Elijah Abel was an early LDS priesthood leader in the quorum of the seventy.
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.