Brigham Young: Sermon on Race and Slavery

( 1859 ) Commentary by Bradley A. Skeen, Ph.D.

“Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another planet, and power was given them to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth.” - Sermon on Race and Slavery
“The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother … and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race—that they should be the ‘servant’ of servants; and they will be, until that curse is removed; and the Abolitionists cannot help it, nor in the least alter that decree.” - Sermon on Race and Slavery

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