On this episode, we cover the major sprouts of Mormonism which sprang from the fertile religion Nauvoo soil. From the Strangites, to Whiteites, to Josephites, to Brighamites, to Godbeites, and back to Brighamites again, every major faction of Mormonism seems to have a highly polarized stance on polygamy. Politics plays it’s role as laws are passed in attempt to outlaw the twins of barbarism, slavery and polygamy, largely aimed at curtailing the religious overreach of the Mormon theocracy in Utah. This is part 3 in a multi-part series on the history of polygamy.
Links:
Opposition to Mormon Polygamy in Utah http://ilovehistory.utah.gov/time/stories/polygamy.html
Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act
James Strang http://www.strangstudies.org/James_Jesse_Strang/
Lyman Wight http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/lyman-wight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Wight
Whiteite Polygamy https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=usupress_pubs
Alpheus Cutler http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/alpheus-cutler http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10632&context=annals-of-iowa
Joseph Smith III http://www.josephsmithjr.org/history/children/70-joseph-smith-iii https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V20N04_107.pdf
Saints Herald 1860 archive http://www.latterdaytruth.org/pdf/100137.pdf
Buchanan’s Blunder War of 1857-58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
Poland Act of 1874 http://www.famous-trials.com/mountainmeadows/933-the-poland-act
James A. Garfield Inaugural Address 4 March 1881 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25823
Assassination of Garfield, trial of Charles Guiteau https://www.jstor.org/stable/1100203?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
George F. Edmunds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Edmunds
Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act 1882 http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h734.html
Grover Cleveland 8 Dec 1885 annual address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29526
John Taylor https://www.lds.org/churchhistory/presidents/controllers/potcController.jsp?leader=3&topic=facts
Wilford Woodruff http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Woodruff,_Wilford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff
1890 Manifesto—Official Declaration 1 https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/od/1
Supreme Court Ruling upholding Edmunds-Tucker Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Corp._of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints_v._United_States
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