Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence

by Joanna Brooks

For this lesson on race, Roberts sourced references from the Old Testament, the Pearl of Great Price, Alexander Stephens’s The History of the United States (1881), Stephens’s A Constitutional View of the War Between the States (1868), and William Benjamin Smith’s The Color Line: A Brief on Behalf of the Unborn