Ep 118 – Early Black Mormons and Slavery in Utah; Remember the Titans

This is kind of an unusual episode. Shannon’s still in recovery so Bryce is making a solo run for better or worse (definitely the latter). We run through the stories of some early African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their stories are remarkable, their struggles real, their histories vague but inspiring. We try to place their stories within the larger context of slavery in Utah and what life might have been like at the time. Thank you to Century of Black Mormons project at the University of Utah for creating a wonderful resource with biographies of these historical figures. After that, we go through the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans (mighty, mighty, ti-tans!) and discuss how this football movie isn’t really a football movie at all, but a movie about racism. Then we wrap with happy news about the recent SEC filing which charged the Mormon church with hiding assets and unfair investment practices.

 

Show Notes: 

Century of Black Mormons

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/welcome

Black Saints and the Priesthood

https://mormonr.org/qnas/BT5Sk/black_saints_and_the_priesthood_brigham_young_early_utah_era/research

Besty Brown Fluellen

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/fluellen-betsy-brown#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-848%2C-36%2C2224%2C837

John Priesly

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/priesly-john#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2836%2C-127%2C7382%2C2799

Edward “Ned” Leggroan

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/leggroan-edward-ned#?#_ftn16&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-253%2C-19%2C1084%2C411

Nancy Smith

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/smith-nancy#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1998%2C-132%2C6955%2C2662

Isaac Lewis Manning

https://exhibits.lib.utah.edu/s/century-of-black-mormons/page/manning-isaac-lewis#?#_ftn21&c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1381%2C-96%2C5053%2C1934

Utah 1852 slave code

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/primary-documents-african-american-history/utah-slave-code-1852/

History of slave codes

https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/histContextsE.htm#:~:text=There%20were%20numerous%20restrictions%20to,or%20possess%20%E2%80%9Cinflammatory%E2%80%9D%20literature.

More slave codes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes

The Sounds of Slavery by T. David Franklin; Featured public domain slave songs and hollers 

https://archive.org/details/TDavidFranklinTheSoundsofSlavery/02__Levee_Holler.mp3

 

MOGP:

Remember the Titans 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210945/

 

Happy news:  

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-35

 

Other Appearances: 

 

Check out Joseph Smith vs Joseph’s Myth, where Aron and Bryce discuss the Joseph Smith story:

https://youtu.be/oD2Xhg6F-Js

 

Come see us on Aron Ra’s YouTube channel! He’s doing a series titled Reading Joseph’s Myth BoM. This link is for the playlist:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMKfJKvEMeRn5ebpAggkoVHf 

 

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