Robert Foster elected BYU student body president
Elijah Abel is sent on a mission in his 70s. Abel returns home in early December 1884 and dies two weeks later.
Utah Census lists 59 blacks, 29 of them are listed as slaves.
Elijah Abel arrives in Utah, where he works on building the Salt Lake Temple. He and his wife Mary Ann manage the Farnham Hotel. The couple asks to be "sealed" in marriage in the temple, which Brig...
Joseph Smith runs for U.S. president on an anti-slavery platform, proposing the sale of public lands to pay for the release of every slave and to abolish slavery by 1850.
Joseph Smith says blacks have souls (contrary to a common belief) and are a product of their environment. Given an equal environment they would be on the same level as whites.
Elijah Abel, a free black man, is baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints two years after the church's founding in New York
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