“Q: Are the Mormons abolitionists?

“A: No, unless delivering the people from priestcraft, and the priests from the power of Satan, should be considered abolition. But we do not believe in setting the negroes free.”

^{Joseph Smith, Jr. – 8 May 1838, History of the Church – Volume 3 (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1905), 29.}