“[T]he descendants of Cain [claimed by Mormons to be the African race] cannot cast off their skin of blackness, at once, and immediately, although every soul of them should repent … Cain and his posterity must wear the mark which God put upon them; and his white friends may wash the race of Cain with fuller’s soap every day, they cannot wash away God’s mark.”
Millennial Star – No. 27, Volume 14 (Liverpool, England: Samuel W. Richards, 28 August 1852, 418.
