“You must not think, from what I say, that I am opposed to slavery. No! The negro is damned, and is to serve his master till God chooses to remove the curse of Ham [claimed by Mormons to be denial of the priesthood to the African race].”

Brigham Young – Early 1855 (New York, NY: New York Herald, 4 May 1855), 8. See ref. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought – Volume 8, No. 1 (Urbana–Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, Spring 1973), 56; fn84.