... . The prophet Joseph Smith and the early elders of the Church believed that the seed of Cain continued through the flood by the wife of Ham, a son of Noah4. Several historians have formed a "Missouri thesis," which traces the Mormons" belief in black racial inferiority to the period ... intermixture especially through marriage. Young believed that any white man guilty of mingling "his seed with the seed of Cane . could redeem himself" or "have salvation" only by having "his head cut off" and "his Blood [spilt] on the ground"7 According to the Compromise of 1850 the territory of Utah was ...

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... the meat-packing plants were forced to take part in a horrendous fraud, one that affected nearly every American. Sawdust and rat droppings were mixed into the sausage meat and deviled ham that killed about three thousand U.S. soldiers during the Spanish-American war in 1898. Moreover, the poor and uneducated workers were frequently swindled into buying furniture, houses, insurance, and other things ... to America, marry, ...and be a rich man in the bargain. In that country, rich or poor, a man was free, it was said; he did not have to go into the army, he did not have to pay out his mon...

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