Brigham Young: Sermon on Race and Slavery

Once the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) community became established in Utah, Brigham Young, the church’s second president, ordered the publication of the Journal of Discourses, which collected the public speeches of Mormon leaders. The vast majority of its contents during his lifetime are by Young, among them his 1859 Sermon on Race and Slavery. While the Mormons in Utah were not slave owners, Young believed in continuing compromise between the slave and free states, basing his arguments on the Bible and the Book of Mormon.