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060-061: Elijah Abel – Early Black Mormon Priesthood Holder

060-061: Elijah Abel – Early Black Mormon Priesthood Holder

ElijahAblesAs an independent historian, Russell Stevenson has been studying Mormon history for nearly two decades. His first book, Black Mormon: The Story of Elijah Ables, tells the vexing story of race in nineteenth-century Mormonism through experiences of Elijah Ables, a biracial man ordained to the priesthood during Joseph Smith’s lifetime. Drawing on documents unused in other treatments, Black Mormon is the first effort to understand Elijah Ables in all of his identities: black, male, Mormon, and priesthood holder. The volume can be purchased at Benchmark andEborn books, as a Kindle eBook, or directly from Russ.

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