Joseph Smith and polygamy/The Peace Maker

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Contents 1 Criticism 1.1 Source(s) of the criticism 1.2 Reference source 2 Response 3 Conclusion 4 Endnotes 5 Further reading 5.1 FAIR wiki articles 5.2 FAIR web site 5.3 External links 5.4 Printed material

Criticism

• Joseph Smith is claimed to have written a pro-polygamy pamphlet called "The Peace Maker" in 1842, despite the fact that he denied doing so.

Source(s) of the criticism

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 299. ( Index of claims )
• Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
• Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), 50

Reference source

• The Peace Maker (BYU Digital Collections)

Response

Joseph denied having anything to do with the pamphlet in a statement published in the Times and Seasons in December 1842:

NOTICE

There was a book printed at my office, a short time since, written by Udney H. Jacobs, on marriage, without my knowledge; and had I been apprised of it, I should not have printed it; not that I am opposed to any man enjoying his privileges; but I do not wish to have my name associated with the authors, in such an unmeaning rigmarole of nonsence [nonsense], folly, and trash. JOSEPH SMITH. ^[1]

Conclusion

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Endnotes

[back] Joseph Smith, Jr., Times and Seasons, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 32

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

FAIR web site

• FAIR Topical Guide:

External links

Printed material