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|sublink1=Response to claim: 334 - The number of women sealed to Joseph Smith may have exceeded fifty | |||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 336 - At least twelve of the women sealed to Joseph were already married with living husbands | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 338 - "Most" of Joseph wives were married to him for "time and eternity" | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 339 - Emma selected the Partridge sisters and the Lawrence sisters as plural wives for Joseph | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 342 - Emma burned the revelation on plural marriage | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 343 - Joseph said that he would have Emma as his wife in the hereafter even if he had to "go to hell" for her | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 345 - There is "some evidence that Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child in Kirtland" | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 345 - The author claims that Prescindia Huntington Buell's son Oliver may have been Joseph's son | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 345 - "Legend" says that John Reed Hancock may have been Joseph's son | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 345 - The son of Mary Rollins Lightner "may as easily have been the prophet's son as that of Adam Lightner" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 345 - Mrs. Orson Hyde's sons Orson and Frank "could have been Joseph's sons" | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 345 - Mrs. Parley P. Pratt's son Moroni "might also be added to this list" | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 345-346 - "According to tradition," Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, resulting in a miscarriage | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 346 - "It is astonishing that evidence of other children than these has never come to light" | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 346 - Jedediah Grant "excused" Joseph's marriages to married women by stating that it was a way to "try the people of God to see what was in them" | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 346 - Perhaps Joseph "learned some primitive method of birth control" or took advantage of items such as "Portuguese Female Pills" to produce miscarriage | |||
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A FAIR Analysis of: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith A work by author: Fawn Brodie
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