Greetings and salutations.
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was an opponent of slavery,
and tolerant enough in spite of some of the revealed history he wrote
to have ordained an African-American in the priesthood in 1836. His
successor, Brigham Young, was rather less tolerant, and under his rule
Utah would be a sup****ter of the southern position on slavery.
Now assuming that Brigham, before Smith's death, had been sufficiently
converted to Smith's more tolerant early viewpoint that after the move
to the Great Salt Lake, the Mormon church continued to take a pro-
abolitionist line. Also, the absolute ban on black priests that OTL
lasted untill the 1970's never becomes official - there aren't many
black 19th century Mormons, but there are some.
Effects?
Bruce
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