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Claims made in "Chapter 18: Nauvoo"
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Claim
- Over the years, the stories of Josephs healings of the sick in Nauvoo multiplied.
Response
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Claim
- Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple.
Author's source(s)
- Times and Seasons 2:599 (Aug. 2, 1841)
- Wasp 1:26 (Oct. 15, 1842)
Response
- Template:HistoricalDistortion: the brothel was run by John C. Bennett; the Mormons eventually pushed the whole thing into a ravine.
- Misrepresentation of source: Brodie does not disclose the opposition of Joseph and the Mormons to the brothel, as described in her cited source(s).
- John C. Bennett—Brothel at Nauvoo
272
Claim
- Joseph's bodyguards in Nauvoo were the remnants of the Danite band.
Response